ABSTRACT
'Self-assessment' is a concept less current among sociologists than it is among educationists, where it has some vogue. The project presentations are individual, and include no formal element of self-assessment. In the educational literature, the term has been used to refer to a gamut of practices ranging from critical evaluation by students of their work in progress, to provision by students of the official assessment mark for completed work. It would misrepresent the authors' work to imply that it arose from or was based on the literature; it arose from their routinely developed practice, and the issues they thought of in relation to that when given the opportunity to look at it critically. The function, therefore, of a review of the literature here is to provide a context to which what they found can be related rather than to show where their work comes from.
