Variation in Students' Conceptions of Self-Assessment and Standards

Table 1

The structure of students’ conceptions of self-assessment and standards.

Compliant self-assessment	Reliant self-assessment	Defiant self-assessment
Focus on Teacher’s expectations	Focus on Teacher’s standards	Focus on judging own standards against teacher’s standards
(i) Accepts teacher’s expectations and judgment	(i) Understands and accepts teacher’s expectations and judgment	(i) Understands but does not necessarily accept teacher’s expectations and judgment
	(ii) Understands and relies on teacher’s interpreted standards and criteria	(ii) Understands teacher’s interpreted standards and criteria
		(iii) Understands self-interpreted standards and judges this against teacher’s standards in self-assessment