Reliabilty of peer assessment and Its impact on secondary school students’ writing skill
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2021
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Université Oum El Bouaghi
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The study aims at finding out the impact of peer assessment to improve EFL learners' writing skills. This paper highlights the practical use of peer assessment and its effectiveness. This action research used a mixed-method design to collect quantitative and qualitative data. It was conducted for three weeks through five sessions on twenty students from a secondary school in Constantine Province. The instruments applied were: a pre and post scoring test, a checklist. The results showed a substitution in the peers' scoring to become closer to the teacher's scoring after the peer assessment training and an increase in the students' scores after the peer review and the edition. The findings revealed that a guided peer assessment improved students' writing performance. Likewise, they developed wellstructured sentences, organized ideas appropriately, reduced word repetition, and had fewer mistakes in grammar and mechanics. They also became responsible for assessing their friend's tasks, which increased their positive perspectives towards peer assessment. Finally, the implications of using peer assessment in the classroom are significant as well as beneficial for EFL teachers and researchers who want to enhance the writing skills of their students.
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Writing skill, peer assessment, writing process