SELF AND PEER EVALUATION Ms. Ekta Upadhyay M.Sc.(N) Ist Year
Key words Evaluation:- an individual’s achievements or characteristics. Review :- a formal assessment of something with the intention of instituting change if necessary. Self :- a person's essential being that distinguishes them from others Peer :- peer is someone at your own level.
Evaluation The term evaluation is derived from the word ‘ valoir ’ which means ‘to be worth ’. Thus evaluation is a process of judging the value or worth of an individual’s achievements or characteristics.
“It is an act or process that involves the assignment of a numerical index to whatever is being assessed” “Evaluation is an act or process that allows one to make a judgment about the desirability or value of a measure”
DEFINITION Self evaluation is defined as judging the quality of one’s work, based on evidence and explicit criteria, for the purpose of doing better work in the future.
Benefits of self evaluation Increased confidence in their own learning. Enthusiasm for collaborative working, despite initial anxieties . Improved team-work and greater flexibility in their use of their skills Increased awareness of new techniques and greater insight . To encourage continuing self- evaluation
CONT ……. To encourage individual professional growth To improve morale and motivation To support employees as they experiment
TOOLS FOR SELF EVALUATION Self evaluation is an evaluation of one’s own abilities and failings – Reverse dictionary
To encourage- innovative approach. To encourage individual professional growth in areas of interest to the employee To improve morale and motivation by treating the employee as a professional. To encourage collegiality and discussion about practices among peers in an organization
Being observed and receiving feedback Improved team-work and greater flexibility in their use of their skills Increased awareness of new techniques and greater insight into thinking• Enhanced planning skills to ensure more effective task management. Observation can involve experts; can be informal or formal procedures.
Checklist: provides guidance for collection of relevant evidence 1 . Staff annual professional review procedures 2 . Peer support Coaching Joint preparation of materials Planning Team building 3. Observation can involve experts ; can be informal or formal procedures. Feedback from such observation is very valuable, but must be handled sensitively 4 . Audit Checklist : provides guidance for collection of relevant evidence used to determine the merits, worth or significance of a self.
STEPS IN SELF EVALUATION Time :- Allow about an hour to complete the self‐evaluation. Quiet:- Conduct the self‐evaluation in a quiet place without interruptions so you can devote your full attention and reflection to the process. Relax: - Try to relax and reflect upon individual goals, experiences, and incidents. No one is perfect, and it is very likely that you will recall both good and bad experiences. Highlight the highlights ; - Don't be shy about letting your supervisor know where you shone during the year. The self‐evaluation is the place to boast with grace and diplomacy.
Solicit feedback from coworkers :- Consider asking your colleagues what they think of your performance. Be objective :- Instead of evaluating yourself based on how you wished you’d performed, offer the results and quantify them as much as possible by using facts, figures, and specific dates. Use appropriate language :-Choose words that demonstrate some objectivity and distance.
Suggest specific improvements :-The self‐evaluation is a good opportunity to identify specific ways to improve your performance Complete the Learning and Career Development Action Plan:- Write more than one draft :- you write, review, and revise your self‐evaluation to ensure you “Send Forward” your best work.
DISADVANTAGES Format based plan : Self-assessment can be very time consuming, so as teachers we have to plan it before and write an adequate format, so it doesn’t take students too long to answer it, and so it is easy to check. Consciousness : Students need to have a very high degree of consciousness, so they can be able to analyze the errors that they have made. Teacher feedback: Students can be undecided or If they haven’t received enough feedback from the teacher, they may have doubts regarding to the progress. Self-evaluation only works if students have been trained to self- assess themselves.
Language : It implies knowledge about language and learning which most second language learners don’t have. lack of maturity: Some students are not ready to have a self assessment task, mostly because they aren’t aware of the seriousness or importance of the process. Lack of maturity : Some students are not ready to have a self assessment task, mostly because they aren’t aware of the seriousness or importance of the process.
Peer Evaluation
ANA GUIDELINES FOR PEER REVIEW Nursing care delivered is evaluated by an individual of same rank} according to established standards of practice Standards of nursing practice provide means for measuring} quality of nursing care . Assures consumer of continued competence, Identifies weaknesses in practice that can guide continuing education, Provides a quality assurance mechanism. Assists nurses in improving documentation, communication and productivity.
PEER REVIEW PRINCIPLES Peer is someone of the same rank Healthcare provider to healthcare provider Staff nurse to staff nurse Educator to educator APN to APN Unit Director to Unit Director Executive to Executive
Success of peer evaluation depends on Short but objective method Trained observers Constructive feedback for faulty development Open communication and trust
Methods Of Peer Evaluation Direct observation Videotaping Evaluation of course materials Analysis of portfolios
PROCESS OF PEER REVIEW Establish a policy requiring peer reviews Establish criteria for peer evaluations Procedure for conducting peer evaluations
Conducting a review Initial steps Confidentiality Bias and competing interests
Types of peer review Single blind Double blind Open review Transparent Collaborative
Single blind review In this type of peer review the author does not know who the reviewers are. The reviewers know that you are the author of the article, but you don’t know the identities of the reviewers. Single-blind review is most common for science and medicine journals.
Double blind review Under double-blind review, the reviewers don’t know that you are the author of the article. And you don’t know who the reviewers are either. Double-blind review is particularly common in the humanities and some social sciences.
Open peer review The identity of the author and the reviewers are known by all participants. There is a growing minority of journals using this form of peer review but popularity among reviewers is yet to be proven. Some journals may also publish the reviews together with final articles, and so readers see both the identity of the reviewers and their comments.
Transparent peer review The pilot program enables open publication of an article’s entire peer review process in an easily accessible, searchable, and citable format, in order to bring greater transparency to the research process and recognition to the work of peer reviewers This is a fairly new form of peer review which allows subject-related journals to transfer reviewed manuscripts between each other. Typically, an author submits their paper to a journal but after it has been reviewed the editors decide that although not suitable for their journal.
Collaborative review This covers a broad variety of approaches in which a team of people work together to undertake the review. One format is to have two or more reviewers work together to review the paper, discuss their opinions and submit a unified report.
ADVANTAGES OF PEER EVALUATION Improves team work Encourage group members involvement and responsibilities Encourage peers to reflects on their role and contribution to the process of group work. Focuses on the development of judgment skills Provides more relevant feed back to the students as it is generated by their peers. Give opportunities for the hidden leaders to be selected
DISADVANTAGES OF PEER EVALUATION Threats to friendship bias Time consuming Artificially inflated. Peers feels ill equipped to undertake the assessment. Reluctance to make judgement regarding their peers.