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The Impact of Self-assessment on Achievement: the effects of self-assessment training on performance in external examinations.
- Source :
- Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice; Jul2003, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p209, 12p
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Can the quality of students' work be improved through training in self- assessment practices? This paper considers the impact of training high school students on their performance in external examinations. Teachers were selected from a sample of high schools and trained in how to develop students' self-assessment skills. Ten high schools representative of the top, middle and bottom levels of academic achievement in national examinations were chosen and students trained in self-assessment by their normal class teachers as part of their final year curriculum. An experimental group comprising 256 participants received formal training in self-assessment skills for the entire three terms of the academic year. A control group was selected from matched classes not receiving such training. A significant difference favouring those trained in self-assessment was found overall and in each curriculum area. While it is demonstrated that self-assessment training can have an impact on student performance the paper considers the circumstances of the study and whether similar outcomes might be possible in less favourable conditions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- SELF-evaluation
ACADEMIC achievement
HIGH school students
PERFORMANCE
TEACHERS
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0969594X
- Volume :
- 10
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 10849123
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594032000121289