Self- and peer-assessment in upper secondary schools. A quasi-experimental study to investigate the educational effectiveness of formative assessment is a new open-access research paper that finds, as my headline states, that well-designed peer assessment activities can work well.

They actually found peer assessment to be more effective than self-assessment.

One thing, though, that I found a bit odd about the paper is that the authors appeared to describe self and peer-assessment as “formative assessment,” which they obviously are.  But they gave the impression – to me, at least- that  self and peer assessment were THE types of formative assessment.  In other words, they didn’t even seem to allude to the fact that there were tons of different types of formative assessments, and these were just two of them.

I’m adding this info to The Best Ideas On Peer Review Of Student Writing and to The Best Resources On Student Self-Assessment.