Student Self-Assessment: An Essential Guide for Teaching, Learning and Reflection at School and University

Maddalena Taras · Hwei Ming Wong

Dec 2022 · Taylor & Francis

About this eBook

This book provides the basics of student self-assessment and implementation challenges, and it offers practical solutions and examples for navigating the use of student self-assessment in various subject disciplines in primary schools, secondary schools and higher education. It provides an informed approach for educators to understand the complexities and subtleties involved in implementing self-assessment, and how this might include and impact on teachers and students.

Involving students in assessment is not a new idea nor is student self-assessment a new assessment tool in schools. Despite the advantages and the necessity for including it in our pedagogic processes explicitly, the use of student self-assessment has been far from commonplace and consistent in classrooms, schools and universities. This book makes clear the choices of what, how and why student self-assessment is important and usable in the classroom.

This book is designed for educators at different levels, and educational researchers. It will provide food for thought for pre- and in-service teachers and school leaders who are interested in nurturing independent and self-directed learners by involving students in the assessment process and maximising student learning through the use of student self-assessment.

About the author

Maddalena Taras is Associate Professor at the University of Sunderland, UK. She was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship in 2013, and in REF 2014, a 4* world class research impact. www.ref.ac.uk

Hwei Ming Wong is a Senior Education Research Scientist and is the Programme Director of the Schools, Leadership and System Studies Research Programme at the Centre for Research in Pedagogy and Practice, National Institute of Education, Singapore. She was previously a primary school teacher and an educational psychologist with the Ministry of Education.