Peer Assessment, Self-assessment and Teacher Scoring Within an Information Literacy Course

Peer review and self-review were introduced in an information literacy course. For students to make a review, they need to be self-reflective and develop critical-thinking and problem-solving skills. This research looked at correlations and/or differences between reviewand teacher scoring. Data were collected within the first-year curricula in Health Sciences. Students conducted a self-review and two peer reviews of search reports according to predefined criteria. The teacher also scored every search report. Pearson's r and paired-sample t-tests were conducted. Results: Overall, strong correlations were found. Moderate correlations were found between peer review and self-review, which does not hold for the different curricula. Between self-review and teacher score, there is a moderate correlation that does hold for the separate curricula. Teacher scores are significantly lower than peer review and self-review, self-review scores are significantly higher than peer review scores. This study confirms the importance of the teacher as an evaluator.