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Abstract

The study intends to investigate the perceptions of higher educationstudents about their engagement in active learning through peerteaching and peer-assessment. A group of 22 students comprising ninefemale and thirteen males participated in the study. The researcherstaught the course within six weeks, and then divided it amongst studentsthrough assignments. The students prepared it, discussed withresearchers, shared and taught the assigned part of the course to theirpeers in the classroom in the presence of one of the researchers. Thepeers assessed the quality of presentation and mastery of the content andteaching skills of their peers against a given rubric. Three instrumentsnamely: questionnaire, interviews and focussed group discussion wereused to investigate students’ perceptions. The analysis of data revealedthat students felt actively engaged in their studies through peer teachingand peer-assessment. Moreover correlation between peer assessmentand teacher assessment was also calculated. Peer teaching and peerassessment can be confidently used in higher education in Pakistan oncondition that teacher as a supervisor is highly vigilant