Resource

Self Assessments

Author: ATU Galway

What is it?

Students are asked to reflect on their own pieces of work, learning and their level of skills using a module specific grading rubric. This encourages students to evaluate their work and identify ways to improve their learning and skills.

Advantages & Challenges

Advantages

Challenges

Advantages

This form of assessment encourages students to reflect and think critically about their own learning process, strengths, and areas for improvement.
It helps to empower students to become more independent learners and develop their ability to identify their own learning needs.
It helps to develop metacognitive skills as students can learn to monitor and improve their own learning strategies.
Self-assessment can be incorporated into many different forms of assessment.

Challenges

Tips for Use

Consider how you are going to use self-assessment with students: Is it going to be summative or formative? Is it going to be a stand-alone assessment or as an element of a larger assessment?
Develop a rubric for students to follow when they are assessing their own work.
Consider adding elements of self-reflection for students to identify their strengths and areas for improvement.

Resources

Deakin University: Communication skills (deakin.edu.au)
University of Galway: 1 (universityofgalway.ie)
TCD: Assessments-self-assessment.pdf (tcd.ie)
Leeds Institute for Teaching Excellence: Microsoft Word – Pugh|CompendiumOfAssessment.docx (leeds.ac.uk) (page 94)
RCampus: Student Self-Assessments: Importance, Benefits, and Implementation – RCampus
University of New South Wales (UNSW): Student Self-Assessment | UNSW Teaching Staff Gateway
Maynooth University:Self and Peer Assessment | Maynooth University
Royal Society of Chemistry: Self and peer assessment | Principles of assessment for learning | Resource | RSC Education

Sample Rubrics

Deakin University: Communication skills (deakin.edu.au)

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