Do you use it and how should it be done properly?
Ds came home from school with French homework marked by another student in his class - fair enough.
However, when giving out the answers to the class the teacher used a different noun for slippers than the one she had taught the class. Ds therefore received an incorrect mark.
Now a half term later the French teacher has not looked over this piece of work in order to assess the incorrect answers - she would then be able to see that Ds's answer was also correct.
I don't care that ds was marked down for the homework as ds knows that what he wrote is also the correct way to answer the question.
My query is surely this is a poor implementation of TIM? A fellow student, more often than not, does not have the experience to mark a foreign language.
I also had an issue with comments my own ds made about another student's art homework. Unintentionally ds upset the child. Ds does not have the experience to comment on artistic interpretations by others. The poor child concerned had used sellotape which is apparently a big no no they have been told for the last 4 years. She had also used different font types in her written work which so he though it looked like she had copied and pasted text. Lastly she had used posted notes on the poster which I'm sure was supposed to be arty but by passed ds completely.
Ds was told he should have put more effort into his presentation - it took him 5 hours and was very informative.
I understand children assessing their own work - but peer marking seems ridiculous.