Peer assessment is the assessment of the work of others of equal status. In the context of student learning, peer assessment is used by students to estimate the worth of other students' work with reference to specific and agreed criteria.

(NCCA, 2019)

The peer conversation stems below can encourage further thinking and discussion within peer assessment.

(The Core Collaborative as cited in Hattie & Clarke, 2019)

The peer conversation stems are also available as an infographic by The Core Collaborative, which can be downloaded here. Further information from The Core Collaborative can be found here.

Self-assessment is the involvement of students in making judgements about their own work, based on features of quality. It is a measure of the extent to which their own work has met these features of quality.

(NCCA, 2019)

A useful way of getting students to reflect on their learning throughout their digital portfolio is to ask students to complete a learning log at the end of a lesson/activity/experience.

A learning log is a planned, purposeful, follow-up written response to their learning experience (NCCA, 2015).

“...seeing what has improved and thus identifying a trajectory of development means the student is likely to be able to see how further improvement might be possible (Wiliam, 2018, p. 184).

“The better students are able to manage their learning, the better they learn” (Wiliam, 2011, p.158).

Students can review their learning journey/progress by reflecting on where they began, how far they have come and how they got there by using the following learning log:

Students could also be encouraged to use the What? So what? Now what? method as a form of reflection on their learning:

Students are invited to respond to two of the following prompts:

Getting students to choose which two of these prompts they respond to encourages a more thoughtful approach to the process of reflecting on their learn.