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Can someone briefly explain the following where it states....because here user/assessor/learner is limited by user/assessor/learner's own creativity leading to self construction of knowledge and not to the extent of instructor's knowledge....Your thoughts? Can you give me some sort of an example? Thanks

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Many times assessments and grades are considered to be the same because most assessments are teacher/instructor driven leading to grades/comparison. But self assessments are far more effective because here user/assessor/learner is limited by user/assessor/Learner's own creativity leading to self construction of knowledge and not to the extent of instructor's knowledge.

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This solution briefly compares self-assessment evaluation with teacher made assessments. The text contains 215 words.

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Simply stated, most of us are keenly aware of what we know and don't know and tend to be more critical in our appraisal of the deficits that exist in our scope of knowledge. For instance, I feel confident in my mastery of Algebra, that I could solve most any equation accurately given a prescribed formula, but on the other hand, while ...

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