Integrating Peer Assessment in Technology Education through Adaptive Comparative Judgment

• Advocates of assessment ‘for’ learning argue for its use as a diagnostic tool to support direct and meaningful feedback in a way that is a pedagogical feed-forward.  Implementations and interpretations of assessment for learning have begun to push the boundaries of educational transactions to actively include the learner in the process of assessment (Black & Wiliam, 1998; Orsmond, Merry, & Reiling, 2000; Sadler, 2009; Yorke, 2003).  Critically, assessment ‘as’ learning encourages self and peer appraisal as a self-regulatory act.With design and technology education requiring a disposition of enquiry and critique it is critically important that appraisal as a self-regulatory act is developed as a central element of practice. Recognising the impact assessment has on shaping the learning experience (Orsmond et al., 2000), the role and position of the student in assessment activities becomes increasingly important when the outcomes of learning are value laden. The goal is to lead students away from uncritical indoctrination in the technology education discipline to a space where they can conceive and imagine the subject for what it should be. This study looks at how assessment practise can be augmented to support ITTE (Initial Technology Teacher Education) students in developing a disposition appropriate to the goals of technology education.This study utilised the Adaptive Comparative Judgment (ACJ) method of assessment (Kimbell, 2008) as the medium for the integration of peer assessment in a Technology based ITTE programme. Students (n= 136) presented their own conception of capability through an e-portfolio and holistically assessed the work of their peers using non-explicit assessment criteria.This paper presents the findings from a study that implemented a student-centred approach to assessment in design and technology education. Both qualitative and quantitative methods were employed to evaluate the impact of the initiative on student behaviour, values and capability. Results present student reactions to holistic peer assessment and examine the impact that the integration of the assessment method had on student learning.

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

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Peer Assessment

Holistic Judgement

Adaptive Comparative Judgement

Formative assessment

bedömning

formativ bedömning

parvisa jämförelser

helhetsbedömning

skola

utbildning

teknikdidaktik

Teknikvetenskapens lärande och kommunikation

Education and Communication in the Technological Sciences

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