Peer Assessment in Year 13

[TongueBiter]

Does this happen at your DC's 6th form?

I'm concerned as Dd2 says everyone peer assesses "kindly" ie gives higher grades than it would get if it were marked by a teacher. Teacher has hardly marked anything it seems just offloads to students about her mother suffering from dementia and the thieving carer, and how much marking she has for other years

I have read the literature etc on peer assessment and it's benefits but in year 13 I really feel the students would benefit more from an accurate and professional grading from the teacher.

My Year 13 students used peer assessment but they would also have an essay back from me every fortnight. Peer assessment is a useful took to get students to understand what the examiner is looking for, but it does not replace teacher assessment.

Yes, I've been looking at more research literature this evening, and I don't deny it is a useful exercise. But when peers are marking her answers as As and high Bs nine days out of ten, then she's scraping a low B and a C when Mrs X marks, it's giving mixed messages. It's unreasonable to expect a 17 year old to be able to mark with the same grasp of exactly what is expected as a teacher would do. Can, for example, a grade C student recognise, grasp and mark grade A standard work?

I think they can do it to a simplified level. I tend not to get them to peer assess to a grade to be honest for the exact reason that you have given.

I would give them a simplifies version of the markscheme and ask them to look for certain skills/ scholars or pieces of information. Sometimes they will do that before I mark it which will speed up my marking but also train the students to look for and therefore include certain things in an essay.