A presentation from the TIS International Conference - Internationalisation of Pedagogy and Curriculum in Higher Education: Exploring New Frontiers June 2011.
Falchikov (1986) expounds peer assessment as the process through which groups or individuals rate their peers. Since international students have complex home cultures and previous learning experiences diverse identities will perform in the social-contextual university when students interact with their peers from other backgrounds. There are a few studies of international students' peer assessment in some countries such as in Australia but here the coverage in the UK context is somewhat sparser.
Internationalization is now firmly on the UK education agenda. In the higher education sector it has come to dominate recruitment as financially hard-pressed institutions seek to attract overseas students to shore up holes left by reduced government funding. In the time of growing international students thus pedagogies curricula and forms of assessment deemed successful in the past may be no longer adequate and need to be rethought for internationalization. The results of this research could be argued of considerable importance as academic cases for more innovative approaches to assessment in higher education need to be investigated. It is hoped that the forthcoming results will help British universities and lecturers focus their efforts to issues of international students' learning make suggestion to assessment policy makers for a further development and spread of successful practices as well as encourage a new way of international learning.
