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.

Process summary

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

Peer Assessment process (125.03 KB / PDF)

Timelines: Input and submission deadlines

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.

Peer Mark Timeline - One Semester (287.3 KB / PDF)

Peer Mark Timeline - face to face Input 2 (180.87 KB / PDF)

Peer Mark Timeline - no face to face Input 2 (180.84 KB / PDF)

Versions participating and timelines used

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 version	Peer Mark timeline
AgriPALS / VetPALS / GEPVetPALS	Input 2: One Semester, Input 3: face-to-face
LawPALS	One Semester
LEAPS / SRA Ambassadors / WP Mentoring / Early Years Primary Project Volunteers	Face-to-face Input 2
Maths Buddies	Face-to-face Input 2
Resident Assistants / Resident Assistants: Leadership	No face-to-face Input 2
Sports Union Volunteers / Sports Union Volunteers: Leadership	Face-to-face Input 2
Students’ Association Leadership in Student Opportunities	Face-to-face Input 2

Submission template

Edinburgh Award - Submission Template - Input 2 (21.95 KB / DOCX)

Edinburgh Award - Submission Template - Input 3 (21.72 KB / DOCX)

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.

Edinburgh Award - Instructions for staff creating Peer Mark sessions (611.34 KB / PDF)

This article was published on 2024-05-06