unit 6 activity 1

Self assessment: it is the grade that the student gives to himself/herself, depending on the activities that he/she realized during the semester and how does he/she thinks he/she earned them.

Advantages:

Students reflect about their performance during the course.

Teacher has the opportunity to know what the student thinks about the course.

Gives the teacher information about what he/she must do and what don’t.

Students can express their feeling about the class.

Disadvantages

The self assessment can be unreliable because of the maturity.

The objective of the self assessment can be lost during the process.

Takes a lot of time for the teacher to revise all the self assessments

Advantages

o They can improve themselves by being aware of their error.

o Students can focus and work on their weaknesses.

o The teacher can work on the most common weaknesses of the students.

o It is an Integral part of learning.

o It involves a personal Growth.

Disadvantages

· The students could not bear the consequence of failure to perform as expected.

· They need to know the correct answers, so it can take a lot of time to verify the results.

· The results of self assessment could be unreliable when the Ss gave themselves a higher mark, so the reliability will depend on the student’s level of maturity.

· The responsibility at the time of performance the work could be avoided.

· The objectively could be lost during this process.

Miranda Ruiz Levid

Garcia Rubio Jesus.