Question

Reflection topic: Critical thinking and peer assessment How does critical thinking relate to peer assessment?

1) What strategies from this week can you apply when you assess Written Assignments?

2) At this point, you have completed a practice assessment and an actual assessment of a Written Assignment. You have also rated posts each week on the Discussion Board. Has any part of the process surprised you? Do you have any concerns about assessment?

The Learning Journal entry should be a minimum of 400 words and not more than 750 words. Use APA citations and references if you use ideas from the readings or other sources.

Answer 1

Critical thinking relate to peer assessment, since assessment plays important role as a learner which is nothing but doing self assessment by taking honest feedbacks from their squint/peers, if this becomes the routine of one's daily life he ends up becoming a critical thinker. Practice balance thinking, Exercise mental and emotional moderation, prractice situational awareness, exercise and promote discipline, effective an efficient thinking, express richer emotional intelligence, focus on destinations, critical thinking is an intellectually disciplined process of actively and skillfully conceptualizing/gestate, applying analyzing, synthesizing and evaluating information gathered from or generated by observation, experience, reflection, reasoning, communication, as a guide to belief an action, critical thinking is just deliberately and systematically processing information so that you can make better decision and generally understand things in a better way. 1) Strategies for assessing written assignments are as follows- Plan and implement activities that supports in meeting the learning goals, Demand to reflect, Catechize to summary, Enjoin Quizes, Think pair and share strategy, misunderstanding check, Practice more frequently, Use variation, Peer/squint instruction, Discrete what you do and don't understand etc.2) Well, pratice more frequently surprised me, that one should check for understanding at least three times a lesson minimum. Yes, it concerns me about assessment comes in many shapes and sizes, it is a learning tool, the multi-faceted, nature of assessment means that educators can leverage them in a number of ways to provide valuable learning process.