Within an undergraduate programme, a four-year, action research project implemented, evaluated and refined a regime of peer assessment focused on generating high-quality peer feedback. Changes in structure and process transformed a system that had initially been characterised by a reluctance to criticise fellow students into one that produced…

An action-research account of a successful improvement to practice presented for assessment within a taught MA in education was given a fail grade. The student's challenge to this decision led the university assessor to re-evaluate and change his own practice in assessment in much the same way as the student had in the original report. The…

Describes how self-assessment was introduced into a Certificate in Education course for practicing British teachers in the post-compulsory sector and how the method and instrument of self-assessment was refined over successive cohorts, focusing on an action research project that was developed to change students' responses to the self-assessment's…