Power of Peers: Leveraging Student-to-Student Interactions for Learning

Student-to-student interactions are an underutilized resource in music classrooms, but a powerful tool to leverage for student learning. This column will explore peer assessment in the general music classroom as assessment “for learning.” It will outline teacher considerations for setting up high-quality peer assessment practices and will offer models of protocols and checklists that can be used to implement peer assessment in simple task.