Attitudes towards peer assessment: a comparison of the perspectives of pre‐service and in‐service teachers

In recent years, peer assessment has been increasingly used as an alternative method of assessment in classrooms. The study described in this paper employed a 13‐item Likert‐scale instrument to evaluate participants’ attitudes towards both general (seven items) and online peer assessment (six items). A sample of 280 pre‐service teachers and 108 in‐service teachers from northern Taiwan participated in the study. A difference in attitude was found...