MUSIC STUDENT TEACHERS’ VIEWS ON THE PRACTICE OF PEER ASSESSMENT

Year 2016, Volume: 5 , 151 - 159, 01.09.2016

Nurtug Bariseri Ahmethan Omer Beyhan

Abstract

Forming
an effective learning atmosphere in the classrooms can only be possible with
active participation of students. Assessment and evaluation procedures are part
of students’ learning and students need to be active assessor and evaluator for
their own learning. Peer assessment is one of the frequently used alternative
evaluation technique. The purpose of this research is to understand final year
music students’ views about peer assessment practices during music teaching
methods course. In the scope of this study two dimensions are discussed: i) music students’ evaluation of peer assessment,
ii) music students’ opinions about the difficulties experienced through this process. This is a case study in
qualitative research paradigm and was conducted during 2014-2015 autumn
semester with twenty music students in Fine Arts Department of Music Education
(Necmettin Erbakan University, Education Faculty). In order to get in-depth
understanding about the perceptions of the music students, a semi structured
interview technique was used in the data collecting process and data were
analysed by descriptive analysis method. 

Keywords

Music student teachers, peer assessment, teacher education

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