Peer assessment

Information about Peer Assessment within the Edinburgh Award

Peer Assessment is an integral part of the Edinburgh Award.  While it is often done informally within the Input 2 and Input 3 sessions, it is vital that students learn from one another and there is a huge amount of learning and development that can come from students reviewing their peers' submissions and providing feedback on those submissions.

Centrally-managed peer assessment using Peer Mark

To reduce staff workload were possible, we offer a centrally-managed peer assessment process using Peer Mark for reviewing student reflections at both Input 2 and Input 3.  This process is run at the most common times for versions of the Award to have their session and submission deadlines.

Peer Mark is software that lives within Learn and allows students to submit their reflections and then be allocated a number of their peers' reflections to review against the Award's learning objectives for student submissions.  At Input 2 students are also asked to provide feedback on each submission they read.

For more information and to see if the timelines would work for you, please see below.

The link below provides a summary of the process when using the centrally-managed peer assessment.


Peer Assessment process (125.03 KB / PDF)

 There are set Input and submission deadlines for versions of the Award using the centrally-managed peer assessment. The timeline of dates for 2021/22 along with submission templates is below.


 Please see below for a list of the current versions of the Award taking part in the centrally-managed peer assessment and which of the timelines they use. 

Edinburgh Award versionPeer Mark timeline
AgriPALS / VetPALS / GEPVetPALSInput 2: One Semester, Input 3: face-to-face
LawPALSOne Semester
LEAPS / SRA Ambassadors / WP Mentoring / Early Years Primary Project VolunteersFace-to-face Input 2
Maths BuddiesFace-to-face Input 2
Resident Assistants / Resident Assistants: LeadershipNo face-to-face Input 2
Sports Union Volunteers / Sports Union Volunteers: LeadershipFace-to-face Input 2
Students’ Association Leadership in Student OpportunitiesFace-to-face Input 2

 

Using Peer Mark within your own version of the Award

Whether or not your Award runs within the standard October to March timeline, if you are interested in using Peer Mark within your Award please contact us to chat this through.  Or please see below for instructions about setting up your own Peer Mark session just for your students.

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