JOURNAL ARTICLE

STUDENT SELF ASSESSMENT :

THE KEY TO DEVELOP SELF ACCEPTANCE,
SELF ESTEEM AND REFLECTIVE SKILL
EDU : 403

Submitted by
JESNA NASAR
English Pedagogy
Reg.No: SGAA 15258675

SREE NARAYANA COLLEGE OF EDUCATION

MUVATTUPUZHA
 Students self Assessment : The key to develop self Acceptance, self
esteem and reflective skill
Abstract :

Self Assessment is the process of looking at one self in order to assess aspects
that are important to ones identity. It is one of the motives that drive self
enhancement. The self assessment motive will prompt people to seek information to
confirm their uncertain self concept and at the same time people use self-assessment
to enhance their certainly of their own self knowledge. In the current era of
education, student self assessment stands as a promise of improved student
motivation in social skills and learning. The article focuses student self assessment
and its importance in influenzing students self acceptance and developing reflective
skills.

Introduction

Self assessment is arguably the most powerful means for a territory education
organization to understand and improve its education performance. Self assessment
is a systematic process of data-driven self reflection. Self assessment by pupils, far
from being a luxury, is in fact an essential component of formative assessment.
When anyone is trying to learn, feedback about the effort evidence about present
recognition of the desired goal, evidence about present position, and some
understanding of a way to close the gap between the two. All three must be
understood to some degree by any one before he or she can take action to improve
learning . If formative assessment is to be productive, pupils should be trained in self
assessment , so that they can understand the main purposes of their learning and
there by grasp what they need to do to achieve. Self assessment is one of the motives
that drive self evaluation, along with self verification and enhancement. Self
assessment motive will prompt people to seek information to confirm their uncertain
self concept rather than their certain self concept. At the same time people use self
assessment to enhance their certainly of their own self knowledge. Self assessment
provides the opportunity to discover where a persons true interest, talents, values and
abilities lie. Having this information can be essential to determining a satisfying
career path. It is also helpful when creating goals and understanding ones
personality.

In social psychology self assessment is the process of looking at one self in

order to assess aspects that are important to ones identity. The self assessment
motive could be seen as quite different from the other self evaluation motives. Self
assessment helps to encourage students judgement skills. It helps students gain
understanding of the concepts of quality.

Objectives

To evaluate the importance of self assessment in developing reflective thinking

skills.
To emphasize the importance of self assessment in the personality development
of a student.
To analyse what is student self assessment.
To evaluate how it helps to form a self estem.
To conclude the idea of importance of student self assessment in determine
profession goal through developing reflective thinking skills.
To evaluate how the administration of self assessment help in developing self
accepatance.

Data collection and Methodology

Collection of data was done by using survey method. A rating scale was
prepared for it. A rating scale is a set of categories designed to clicit information
about a quantitative or qualitative attribute. I prepared a 3 point rating scale. It state
criteria and provide 3 response selection to describe the quality or frequency to judge
themselves about their work. The descriptive scale were always, sometimes and
never. This self assessment is made to check the social skill of the people. Taking
social skill as a topic for assessment,

I tries to studies the influence of student self assessment in their personal and
academic life. The tool contain six statements, each statement has 3 answers always,
sometimes, never and it contain 2,1,0 tally marks respectively for the positive
questions and vice versa.

Analysis

After preparing the statements, I took 25 copies of the tool and distributed
among the pupils. The pupils had no ideas about the toll. Then I explained how to
fill the tool. Some pupils couldnt fill the tool by themselves. I helped them by
reading out and explaining each questions.

After pupils self evaluation, I made a review about it. The pupils told me that
was a good experience for them. They could realize their good and drawback in their
reading habits. They thanked me for giving them such a tool. Through this, they
could evaluate or assess themselves apart from others judgements. From this, as a
teacher, I also could understand my pupils writing habit. Some pupils write properly,
Some are write poorly. I hope , I could give these more practice in their writing in
the coming classess.

Almost all girls given positive answers and only a few of them tick never for
some statements. But the boys were must trust worthy, they had given sometimes
and never as answers to most of the statements. Only few have given always as
answers to positive statements. There was variety in answering. This shows the
difference in personality.
 The three components in the self assessment programme was completed in this
study. Self monitoring, a skill necessary for effective self assessment involves
focused attention to some aspect of behavioures or thinking. Students gave deliberate
attention to what they are doing, how they behave and what is their attitude. The
second step self judgement involves identifying progress towards targeted
performance. It helps them to know what they are and what they want to be.
Through the third step, students choose subsequent learning goals and activities to
improve their goods, correct their mistakes and determine the self.

Class Intervals Frequency Midvalue of the

(fi) class intervals (xi) fix

0-5 2 2.5 5
5-10 6 7.5 45
10-15 10 12.5 125
15-20 18 17.5 13

N = 36 fixi = 310

n
Arithmetic Mean = i=1 fi x i

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N
= 310 = 8.611
36
= x = 8.61

Standard deviation
 x
x 1

fi

SD =

n

i=1

Class Frequency xi xi - x (xi-x)2 (xi x)2fi

Interval
0-5 2 2.5 6.11 12.22 24.44

5-10 6 7.5 1.11 2.22 13.32

10-15 10 12.5 3.89 7.78 77.8

15-20 18 17.5 8.89 17.78 320.04

N = 36 = 435.6

SD = 435.6
36

= 12.1
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Conclusion

Self assessment is one of the motives that derive self evaluation along with self
verification and enhancement. Self assessment motive will prompt people to seek
information to confirm their uncertain self concept rather than their certain self
concept. Self assessment helps to enhance the students certainity of their own self
knowledge. Through self assessing there is a possibility that a students self concept
or self esteem can be enhanced in future. Self assessment is the process of looking at
one self. In order to assess aspects that are important to ones identity. It is reflective
in nature. Reflective thinking skills are developed through self assessment.