Peer and self-assessment both show significant effects on academic performance with no significant difference between their impacts¶

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Evidence · 1 study · review r1 · q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · checked against its sources 2026-10-20 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? A meta-analysis of control group studies found both peer and self-assessment show significant effects on improving academic performance and no significant differences between their impacts. → Fusco 2025

Evidence¶

Fusco 2025¶

Fusco, J., DiMaria, S., Yeadon, B., Kolodner, J., & Shell, A. (2025). Assessment During Collaborative Learning. Digital Promise. https://doi.org/10.51388/20.500.12265/252

q3 · i? · review · r1

The primer reports, citing Double et al. (2020), a meta-analysis of control group studies on peer and self-assessment effects. The article states significance without printing an effect size, so no magnitude is asserted here.

"Both peer and self-assessment show significant effects on improving academic performance and no significant differences between their impacts (Double et al., 2020)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Self Assessment Improves Self Regulated Learning — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it

• Self Assessment Accuracy Is Low Without Training — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it

• Structured criteria in peer assessment are not shown to improve its effect on academic performance over freeform review — related
• Peer assessment improves academic performance by a small average amount relative to no assessment or to teacher assessment — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
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