Students’ Peer Coaching for Formative Assessment (Georgian Case)
Challenges - obstacles with implementing the learner-oriented instructional process.
Research Objective
to promote a positive, emotionally safe, and collaborative, student-oriented learning environment through formative assessment/Critical Friend.
Research topics
Problem Identification stage
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Research Methods
Focus group - with students to study their experience and attitude regarding the research topic.
interview with lecturers - to study their experience and attitude regarding the research topic.
Main Results
the majority of the syllabuses do not provide the opportunities to achieve the declared goals.
the applied methodology in courses was mainly focused on summative rather than formative assessment.
they do not realize the essence of collaboration as a means of sharing knowledge and experience. Students do not consider a lecturer an important party involved in collaboration,
Content analyze of the teacher training programs to study the formative evaluation system.
Intervention Stage
To implement Critical Friend and the evaluation of its effectiveness
Research Methods
Observation - to evaluate the effectiveness of interventions
Focus group - to analyze students’ points of view regarding the efficiency of the conducted interventions;
Main Results
Critical Friend approach was implemented
Basic Consequences
Students:
. Become more internally motivated when the participation in “Critical Friend” is an optional activity;
. Identify each other’s strong and weak points;
. Become more open towards criticism and demonstrate a willingness to give recommendations to one another; - Develop different metacognitive skills, - Perfect the knowledge of the topi; - Become aware of the importance of peer teaching for establishing trust-based relationships;
- Take more responsibility for their own, as well as their fellow students’ development.
Conclusions
- It is a student-oriented complex approach
- It aims at developing openness and confidence between lecturer to a student, student to student, and student to a lecturer
Interview - with the lecturers involved in the research to evaluate the efficiency of the conducted interventions.
Target groups
150 students and 5 lecturers of teacher training programs.
Theoretical framework
Social Constructivism
Gibss Reflective Model