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Reducing Your Time: Self-Assessment Practices That Work, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Reducing Your Time: Self-Assessment Practices That Work, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Stephen Fitzmaurice
This paper outlines efforts to teach critical thinking skills for students and reduce grading time. Faculty in
the educational interpreting program stopped providing direct feedback on their interpreted work and
implemented a self-assessment only system of assessment. As part of this process students were taught and
then graded on the efficacy of their self-assessment of their own interpreting work. This has fundamentally
altered program and course assessments and reduced the amount of time it takes for grading and
evaluation. Findings indicate implementing self-assessments throughout each course, improves students’
actual interpreting performance as evidenced by higher Educational Interpreter Performance Assessment
(EIPA) …