“…The studies of children suggest that they tend to have unsophisticated understandings of its purposes (Harris and Brown, 2013;Bourke, 2016) that might lead to shallow implementation of related processes. In contrast, results from the studies conducted in higher education settings suggested that college and university students understood the function of self-assessment (Ratminingsih et al, 2018) and generally found it to be useful for guiding evaluation and revision (Micán and Medina, 2017), understanding how to take responsibility for learning (Lopez and Kossack, 2007;Bourke, 2014;Ndoye, 2017), prompting them to think more critically and deeply (van Helvoort, 2012;Siow, 2015), applying newfound skills (Murakami et al, 2012), and fostering self-regulated learning by guiding them to set goals, plan, self-monitor and reflect (Wang, 2017).…”