1. Peer Assessment

2. Peer Assessment
• What is it?
– Assessing the work of others against an official
assessment criteria.
• Why do it?
– To give others useful feedback and hints on how
they can improve their work
– To help ourselves understand more about how our
work is marked and reflect on our own work
– To get ideas on how to improve our own work

3. Design Cycle
• We have just completed the Analysis stage of
the Design Cycle.
• This included:
– An introduction to the problem/task/Unit Q
– Researching answers to your guiding questions
– A Design Brief
– A Design Specification
– A Test Plan
– An evaluation of your performance so far

4. Assessing this work
• We need to assess this work against the
Assessment Criteria, which is…

5. The Terminology
• Pay close attention to the words in bold on
the criteria. They mark the difference between
the levels that are awarded…

6. Your First Task
• You need to get into pairs
• You have 25 minutes to assess someone else’s
Analysis work that I will provide you with
• You need to make sure you are very strict with
the marking against the criteria
• You need to make sure the student has included
all the different sections of work and that nothing
is missing
• Fill in the feedback sheet I have linked to on the
blog

7. Task Two: Feedback
• We will now feed back to the students who’s
work you have marked in a class discussion.
• Discuss the level you have given and reason
why you have given that level.
• Any suggestions for improvements?
• Anything you think the person did very well?

8. Task Three
• Your next task is to consider your own work and
identify some areas for improvement.
• You have been studying the Assessment Criteria
throughout this lesson and have hopefully considered
whether your own work meets the highest level of this
criteria.
• It is unlikely that everyone in this class has already
achieved a level 6 for this, so take 10 minutes to
consider what level you consider your work to be and
then list some ideas for improvements that can raise
your work up a level.

9. Homework
• Carry out the improvements you have
suggested in the last activity in order to
improve your work and raise its level.