TITLE:
Adoptability of Peer Assessment in ESL Classroom
AUTHORS:
Sumie Matsuno
KEYWORDS:
Peer Assessment, Oral Presentation, ESL University Students, FACET Analysis
JOURNAL NAME:
Creative Education,
Vol.8 No.8,
July
18,
2017
ABSTRACT: In ESL class, a teacher in charge of the class usually evaluates all the students’
performances, where using peer assessment may be a good way to confirm or
modify the teacher assessment. In this study, whether peer assessment can be
adopted in class is considered using FACET analysis. Since this is a regular
small English class in Japan, the participants are 18 ESL university students and
one teacher. First, one misfitting rater is eliminated and all the other raters including
the teacher are included as assessors. The rater measurement report
shows that, after eliminating one rater, no raters are misfits. The FACET map
shows that most of them, including the teacher, are lenient raters. In addition,
only a few unexpected responses are detected. Overall, this study concludes that
peer assessment can be reasonably used as additional assessment in class.