Impact of Peer Feedback Practices During Presentations on Selected Topics of Class Xi in Terms of Self Concept

Abstract

Feedback is advice or criticism about the quality of products, work, performance or ideas for the purpose of improvements. It provides an opportunity to an individual/person to comprehend own skills and capabilities. Feedback is a remark on the tasks performed by student's which may initiate constructive reflection during the next attempt by the learner. Students are required to identify strategies for improving the
way of putting own efforts to achieve success in work. The review indicates that selfconcept is about one's own efficiency, beliefs and capabilities and may be related to supervision in simulated circumstances and feedback about the outcomes. By keeping this point in mind, the researcher conducted the present study on peer feedback and its relationship with the self-concept. After seeking permission from Alpine Academy,
Indore (M.P.) twenty-one class IX students were selected as sample. They were allowed for peer feedback practices for presentations. The Children's self-concept scale developed by Dr. S. P. Ahluwalia and Dr. H. S. Singh (2012) was administered for studying the self-concept of the respondents. It employed a pretest-posttest single group design. The collected data were treated through the Wilcoxon Signed Rank test. The findings indicate that the mean pre and post-self-concept scores at pre and posttest stage
of peer feedback practices differ significantly. Peer- feedback practices were found to be effective in terms of self-concept. The review also indicates significant improvement in the scholastic and non-scholastic performance of students after practicing peerfeedback. The present paper is an attempt for seeking the improved level of self-concept of the learners which can be transferred into routine life activities.