4 October 2017: Student Self-assessment: rationale and practice

Presenter: Danny Carroll (University of New South Wales, Australia)

This session explored findings from four years of research into student's self-assessment against criteria in courses using an online marking system at the UNSW Business School. The webinar covered the purpose of student self-assessment, observations on student self-assessment accuracy and student attitudes and practices. Approaches improve student self-assessment accuracy were also covered in light of the systemic embedding of self-assessment practice at the UNSW Business School.

Further information

• Slide Set: TA_webinar_4_oct_2017_slides.pdf [2.5MB] [PPTx 6.8MB]
• Chat Log (edited for clarity): TA_webinar_4_oct_2017_chat_log.txt
• Presenter profile page:
  • Danny Carroll (LinkedIn)

Links shared during the session

• Carroll, D., (2013). Business student’s attitudes to criteria based self-assessment and self-efficacy. Proceedings of the 30th ascilite conference, Sydney, Australia http://www.ascilite.org/conferences/sydney13/program/papers/Carroll.pdf
• Carroll, D. (2014) Benefits for students from achieving accuracy in criteria-based self-assessment, IAEA Conference Proceedings, https://www.academia.edu/8713240/Benefits_for_students_from_achieving_accuracy_in_criteria-based_self-assessment

Other related resources:

• The 'Review' software used for self-assessment https://www.review-edu.com/
• WebPA (peer assessment of group member contribution)
• SparkPlus (peer assessment)
• Moodle 'workshop' actvitiy (self and peer review of documents)
• Student Self-assessment at UNSW https://teaching.unsw.edu.au/self-assessment

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