Foundation Skills/Ways of assessing student learning and providing meaningful feedback/Self-assessment and peer assessment

Self-assessment and peer assessment
Self-assessment is increasingly being used as an assessment tool in tertiary education. This type of assessment enables students to evaluate progress with their learning. If you are to use self-assessment, then it would probably work best if you give students clear objectives (or competencies) together with explicit criteria against which to judge their performance. You may even want to involve students in of these areas (i.e. setting objectives, identifying competencies, developing criteria for judging performance).

Peer assessment involves students evaluating the work of their peers, e.g. in a group work situation. As in self-assessment, clear objectives and explicit criteria should be agreed upon beforehand.