Advantages & Disadvantages of Using Self-assessment Act#1 UNIT VI

Self-assessment

Advantages

•  Students will become selfaware of their own learning.
•  Students will be autonomous. 
• They can measure their progress.
•  Students can see their strength and weaknesses.

Disadvantages

•   Students are not acostumbed to self-assessment.
• Some times they are not sincere when they do the self-assessm
•    Self-assessment consumes much time for the teacher’s activities.

Rocha Morelos Josué

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 Advantages

• It can give us important and useful information about our students, like their expectations and needs.
•  Based on self assessment we can know how our students feel their learning progress.
•  Self assessment is an integral part of learning.

 Disadvantages

•  It can take a lot of time. 
• Some students can give themselves a higher grade.
• Some students can give themselves a lower grade.

Esquivel Suazo Fabiola

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Self-assessment

Is a good way to know what students need and how they feel, what they think about their progress, about the methods used during the course.

It becomes a useful tool for teachers because is the better way to know about their students and their progress, it also helps the teachers to know what they need to change or if there is any thing they can add to make the course better and useful for the students’ learning.

 Advantages

• Encourages the students to reflect about their own progress bringing them the motivation to overtake their goals.
•  Makes the necessary changes to improve their learning.
• Self-assessment allows teachers to know about how they worked during the course.
• It is a good way that students have to communicate their needs to the teacher.
• Allows students reflect about their work.
• Allows students notice their responsibility to overtake their learning objectives.
• Students provide a useful feed-back of the teacher´s work.
• Allows students learn from their mistakes and try to correct them.

Disadvantages

•  There is not much willingness to change the mistakes.
• Sometimes students are not able to identify their own mistakes.
• Sometimes students are not sincere when they do self-assessment.
•  Students are not able to work with marks when there is intrinsic motivation.

Valadez Acosta Leticia