#growthmindset #peer-assessment #assessment
- Suyoung Kim
- Nov 4, 2022
- 3 min read
*How can educators help improve students' growth mindset during peer assessment?
When students receive and give feedback, they expect that their peers will keep giving positive feedback first, what is the next step, and how my learnings and answers met rubrics or success criteria. Peer assessment requires fair, respectful, and positive assessments to meet each student's learning goals. As an educator, I can help them to create a cultural assessment using growth mindset norms as fair criteria and make a peer connect the group to create a respectful mindset, and lastly, how teacher's scaffolding, like modelling and how assessment statements can make a student's growth mindset effective.
First, Educators help them create the norms to build up a fair assessment environment and simultaneously learn how they give and receive feedback. Students can bring positive words and attitude formulas in a group. Teachers can help with a little advice on making a chart to compare the positive and negative feedback, and then they will practice how students feel about it. During peer assessment, to give a fair assessment, students will be given their notetaking to organize how peers respond to effective questions and what they missed in the rubrics. They keep the norms using the norm chart, and they can examine how my words can influence other peers' emotions and learning success. For example, if there are fixed mindset or bullying words used, teachers can give students time to create words like positive feedback. When there is an irrelevant rubric application to assess peers, teachers or peers have stop signs to check what I am doing and they a time to reexamine how it could be changed. Using the survey poll without mentioning the name like a kakao talk, students can vote on whether the feedback is fair or unfair.
Second, Educators can make another activity for connecting groups to create respect assessment. It is related to building a community culture for students to understand how respecting themselves and others can make a better peer assessment environment. The teacher can give a Najo's view of supporting disabled people as their family. Within Najo's beautiful difference spirit, students have a circle called respect, responsibility, and collaboration. Each group can have a discussion time by taking a turn, and students share their experiences of using respectful words, having a responsible attitude, or supporting peers' learning helps. The teacher can give a co-creating reproduction. It means teachers bring the case of students' infographics and the criteria that students should meet, but it was unsatisfaction. Through a family group, they build up how they can deliver for sample students to change, like highlighting the sentence, what kind of words they have to use, and what kinds of improvement they will suggest using padlet. And then, each group shares their ideas, and they will build up respectful feedback to the team.
Third, teachers can create a positive environment for students to embrace their mistakes and give self-checklists when peers feel embarrassed, ashamed, or failed. It will be great data to change which peer assessment area and how teachers can care about students' shut down situations. After the google survey about students’ shut down experience questions, the teacher will prepare how to keep resilience during the peer-feedback time when they give poor feedback but want to avoid feeling shutdown to peers by making them a resilience mind map. After showing the short resilience video, a group will have time to create a mind map using key works on creating resilience. And then they will have time for why I include the words, like perseverance, never give up, patient, reaching your goal, striving, fighting etc. And they discuss what things words make you feel encouraged. Finally, they will make a journal for assessment statements on how they assess them using a resilience mindset. The teacher can encourage students to enhance their growth mindset by creating mindset norms, respecting community culture, making connections, resilience and using assessment statements through practice after all.
Reference list
1) Survey poll: Kakao talk poll http://wipscorp.blogspot.com/2013/03/kakao-talk-kakao-poll-app-claimed-idea.html
2) Najo's view: beautiful difference https://capalibrarians.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/6B_Wilson_slides.pdf
3) motivational movie: Reliance https://youtu.be/3CQusoJSh0E
4) Resilience mindmap https://nataliefranke.com/2019/11/5-simple-steps-to-build-resilience/
5) Shut down feelings
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