Peer assessment: exploring tertiary student's view

Abstract

In past decades, peer-assessment has been promoted as a valuable approach to enhance students learning experience and has been used to develop autonomous learning environment. This paper is intended to evaluate on university students’ perception towards peer assessment of oral skills; by looking into the students’ attitude and motivation towards the use of peer-assessment in classroom. It also looked into the challenges faced in implementing peer-assessment in classroom. The research instruments consist of a pre-questionnaire, a post-questionnaire and a semi-structured interview to gather data from 40 tertiary level students of this study. This paper then compares the result of pre-questionnaire with the result from post-questionnaire to draw the findings; by looking at the learners’ perceptions before and after experiencing peer-assessment activities during classroom. The findings of this study signify a shift on the learners’ perception towards peer-assessment. Peer-assessment seems to display positive impacts towards students’ attitude and motivation in learning.