Nela Bejat Krajnc, OŠ Pod Goro, Sl. Konjice

The paper presents the Workshop module in Moodle as a tool for peer assessment of English writing skills in primary school. The primary objective of peer assessment was to develop the skills of evaluation of written compositions and to provide a feedback for the classmates. Along with that, the students have become aware of the importance of knowing the criteria for evaluating and were learning at higher taxonomic levels. Each student first submitted his/her composition and then assessed 2 compositions of their classmates. The assessment has been simplified with previously prepared criteria and descriptors. The students were actively involved in making assessment criteria for written compositions, which resulted in both better understanding and achievement of objectives for writing skills. Before the assessment, we made the pilot one in order to harmonize the criteria and to objectively and reliably assess the compositions. After the assessment was made, the comparison with the pilot assessment showed greater consistency of students assessment with teacher assessment. Due to the strict adherence to the criteria, the students own compositions have significantly improved considering original content, versatile vocabulary and grammatical correctness.