Self and Peer Assessment Tools for Speaking Lessons

Self and peer assessments are broad ideas where students give feedback or evaluate their own work and the work of their peers. It can be formative where most of the times students' give feedback to their peers or work on their own progress so that they can improve in whichever that is lacking. self and peers assessments are commonly used as a strategy for students to assess their own contributions and of their group mates to group work and assignments. 

After doing some research, I have learnt that self and peer assessments can benefit students in improving their learning and help them to be responsible for their own learning. However, despite being in use for a long time we are not familiar with the use of self and peer assessment tools in our classrooms and I think it is high time for us to start off with some sort of peer and self - assessments that are relevant to our lessons. 

After going through several online resources, I have developed some tools for self and peer assessments that I am planning to use in my lessons next year. I have gone through the new form four textbook and based on the speaking activities, I have designed some assessment tools for the speaking lessons.

These tools were designed after taking into considerations what may work in my classroom. I am sharing them here so that we can try them out in our classrooms and further improvise them. 

These tools are designed for speaking lessons for form 4 and form 5 levels. 

I will share more assessment tools for other skills once I have done the compilation. 

To download the self and peer assessment tools, please click here. 

Below are examples of self and peer assessment tools that I built for my lessons : 

A simple assessment tool for students to work in their small group
 to assess their progress as a group

Peer evaluation form for students to assess their friends'
performance while doing a group speaking task.
This form is ideal for small groups of four. 

This is a self - assessment tool for learners to assess their own progress.
This tool can be used for both speaking and listening tasks. 

This is another self- assessment tool where students place themselves
from 1 to 9. 1 being very poor and 9 being excellent based on the
12 statements. The statements are on the things they can do in
 a speaking activity.

This is a very simple self - assessment tool. Learners only need
to circle the things they have done after completing a speaking task. 

Peer assessment tool for pair work. A simple tick will do.

A simple version of the self - assessment tool.

This one can be used if a group consists of five members.
Each member can be given an evaluation form, they will
assess their group members as the discussion progresses.

That's all and hopefully what works for me will work for you too.