Different Perspectives on Students’ Presentation Skills: Teacher, Peer, Team And Self-Assessment

Abstract

This paper presents a research on different perspectives of students’ presentation skills. It analyses results from self-assessment, team assessment, peer assessment and teacher assessment of students’ oral presentations on a topic of interest from the field of information and communication technology (ICT). Students and teacher qualitatively and quantitatively assess several presentation elements. The first goal of this research is to analyze differences between perceived quality of oral presentations from teacher’s and students’ point of view, while students assess their own and other students’ presentations. The second goal is to check the concordance of student’s perception on their own presentation and presentations of their team members and peers with teacher’s perception. Based on research results, the paper discusses a method for assessment of student’s presentation effort within a team assignment, which is its main contribution. The goal of the proposed method is to motivate students to participate and focus on other students’ presentations and learn through the process. The research also covers an anonymous survey which helps understand students’ opinion on the used assessment method. This method aims to raise students’ objectivity and awareness of positive and negative elements of their own and other students’ work.