In recent years, learner autonomy has become a popular interest of many linguists and educators. Self and peer assessment, as one of its applications, has undergone considerable research. However, little research as s...In recent years, learner autonomy has become a popular interest of many linguists and educators. Self and peer assessment, as one of its applications, has undergone considerable research. However, little research as such has been carried out in the ELT (English Language Teaching) context in China. This paper investigates the extent to which Chinese college students can self and peer assess their EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing performances as accurately as the teacher does. The accuracy of assessment was measured in terms of scorer reliability between self/peer assessment of 52 first-year non-English majors and three tutors' assessment. It was found that the reliability of self and peer assessment was 0.432 and 0.202 respectively; self assessors have an overall tendency to overrate themselves while peer assessors are vice versa; specifically, both self assessors and peer assessors tend to overrate low performances and underrate high performances.展开更多
文摘In recent years, learner autonomy has become a popular interest of many linguists and educators. Self and peer assessment, as one of its applications, has undergone considerable research. However, little research as such has been carried out in the ELT (English Language Teaching) context in China. This paper investigates the extent to which Chinese college students can self and peer assess their EFL (English as a Foreign Language) writing performances as accurately as the teacher does. The accuracy of assessment was measured in terms of scorer reliability between self/peer assessment of 52 first-year non-English majors and three tutors' assessment. It was found that the reliability of self and peer assessment was 0.432 and 0.202 respectively; self assessors have an overall tendency to overrate themselves while peer assessors are vice versa; specifically, both self assessors and peer assessors tend to overrate low performances and underrate high performances.
