Guest, Jon and Riegler, Robert (2022). Knowing HE standards: How good are students at evaluating academic work? Higher Education Research & Development, 41 (3), pp. 714-728.
Abstract
To become effective learners, students need to develop good evaluative judgment skills. Unfortunately, numerous studies find that self-evaluation estimates provided by undergraduates often differ significantly from the marks awarded by the tutor. This suggests that students either have a rather poor grasp of the assessment criteria, or they find it difficult to apply standards to their own work because of their emotional investment. They may demonstrate a better understanding of standards when asked to judge the work of their peers. We use data from a cohort of 2nd year undergraduates to compare the ability of students to accurately self- and peer-evaluate an assessed essay. We find that peer evaluation is more accurate, on average, than self-evaluation but shows greater dispersion, and there is limited evidence that misconceptions about standards are consistent across self- and peer-evaluation.
Publication DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2020.1867516 |
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Divisions: | College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Economics, Finance & Entrepreneurship College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School College of Business and Social Sciences > Aston Business School > Centre for Personal Financial Wellbeing |
Additional Information: | This is an Accepted Manuscript version of the following article, accepted for publication in Higher Education Research & Development. Jon Guest & Robert Riegler (2021) Knowing HE standards: how good are students at evaluating academic work?, Higher Education Research & Development. It is deposited under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Peer-evaluation,evaluation accuracy,evaluation consistency,evaluation design,self-evaluation,Education |
Publication ISSN: | 0729-4360 |
Last Modified: | 11 Oct 2024 07:25 |
Date Deposited: | 21 Dec 2020 10:05 |
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PURE Output Type: | Article |
Published Date: | 2022 |
Published Online Date: | 2021-01-06 |
Accepted Date: | 2020-11-15 |
Authors: |
Guest, Jon
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Riegler, Robert ( 0000-0002-0423-5080) |