Team Assessment and Self Assessment in High School - Preliminary Results

Team assessment and self-assessment can help the teacher to evaluate team projects at school fairly but they can also be beneficial for the students. In this paper, we try to explore whether it is possible to employ these techniques in programming teaching at high school and how to set them up to bring the greatest benefit to students and teachers. We have designed team-based project activities involving these assessment techniques and examined how students could evaluate the work of their classmates, what were the common elements of individual assessments, what features of their teammates the students noticed during their joint work on the project, whether they were able to reveal the teammates' as well as their own strengths and weaknesses, etc. In the paper, only preliminary results obtained from the first phase of team-based activities are presented.