Peer-assessment ideas for secondary students

Top activities to encourage secondary students to be actively involved in assessment by reflecting on the work of their peers

Tes Resources Team

Colourful Thumbs Up Indicating Positive Peer Feedback

Tools and activities to encourage effective peer assessment in class

Peer assessment is an important part of the assessment for learning process and can have an enormous impact on your learners’ understanding of key teaching points and, ultimately, their progress. As such, we’ve highlighted a few tools to help you make the most of opportunities for peer assessment in your secondary classroom.

Structuring peer-assessment  

Peer Assessment Carousel | Essays and Extended Writing | KS3 and KS4
Pagecraft

Peer Assessment Carousel | Essays and Extended Writing | KS3 and KS4

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A peer assessment carousel not only lightens your workload, but it also allows each student to gain feedback from six different classmates whilst also seeing and evaluating examples of work from their peers. **How it works...** Just print a six-box feedback sheet for every student and staple it to...

Providing detailed feedback

DIRT Worksheet (A3 Double-Sided)
godwin86

DIRT Worksheet (A3 Double-Sided)

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Need an instant DIRT worksheet/session? This is for any GCSE (or exam) subject. This download includes a generic (multi-subject) A3 double-sided DIRT worksheet and PowerPoint instructional slides. DIRT stands for 'Dedicated Improvement Reflection Time' and the worksheet features a number of...
Student Peer Assessment Mat
thisisgeography

Student Peer Assessment Mat

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Guides students to effectively peer assess. Improves students work and guides teachers to where feedback is required. For more resources visit [**This is Geography**](http://thisisgeography.co.uk). Full SoW for all new GCSE specifications - [AQA](https://thisisgeography.co.uk/gcse/), [Edexcel](...
DIRT Feedback AFL
EC Resources

DIRT Feedback AFL

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Easy to use DIRT feedback and evidencing progression sheet which uses Bloom s matched to the new 9-1 GCSE gradings. Can be used for any KS3 or KS4 subject. It s really quick for marking. To use - Highlight the skill they ve used, e.g you have explained the meaning of key phrases such as ...
Whole Class Feedback
rockthatresource

Whole Class Feedback

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**A visual Whole Class Feedback Slide to speed up marking and feedback!** Whole Class Feedback has transformed the lives of many teachers. It allows teachers to look through books spotting common errors and snapping photos of the 'best examples', then instead of writing the same thing 30 times in e...