P3 bloggers at Haddington Infant School are now each being provided with a Blogroll containing links to all 90-odd P3 student blogs across the 4 P3 classes. You can see an example here at Andrew’s blog.

Peer feedback and peer assessment are powerful formative assessment practices, and Robert Whiteside is doing this to enable these children to easily and quickly navigate backwards and forwards between one another’s blogs. This way they can practice their reading of what others have written, and use the Comments box to provide feedback or assessment.

By using blogs in this way, peer feedback and peer assessment can be used beyond the boundaries of a single class. Of course, there’s no reason why this approach cannot extend beyond the school itself. That might be of particular value in some rural primaries, where the P3 cohort, for example, is small.

There’s some background on this project on my personal blog.