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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) …
Teaching To Self Assess: Developing Critical Thinking Skills For Student Interpreters, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Teaching To Self Assess: Developing Critical Thinking Skills For Student Interpreters, Stephen Fitzmaurice
Stephen Fitzmaurice
In an effort to teach critical thinking skills to interpreting students, our
educational interpreting program has stopped providing direct feedback
on their interpreted work. We believe that independent practitioners
need to be skilled at self-assessment rather than relying on external ratings
of performance; thus, for the last 2 years, I have taught and then
graded students on the efficacy of their self-assessment of their own
work. To assess this change, I analyzed the Educational Interpreter Performance
Assessment (EIPA) ratings of students who received direct
feedback and those who learned to self-assess. The findings indicate that
the students who were taught …