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Juuso Henrik Nieminen; David Boud – Teaching in Higher Education, 2025
Self-assessment involves students making judgements about their own learning. Self-assessment is promoted widely due to its benefits for lifelong learning. However, students often find self-assessment mechanical, useless and redundant -- indeed "inauthentic." This may partly result from understanding self-assessment as an instrumental…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Performance Based Assessment, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Lifelong Learning

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