Abstract: Based on an existing instrument for investigating students’ perceptions of peer assessment(PA), a questionnaire was developed to study Chinese EFL students’ perceptions of PA and online PA through collecting data from students of a key university in Beijing Students’ perceptions were examined from four subscales: positive attitudes, online attitudes, understanding-and-action attitudes and negative attitudes Results show that students involved hold positive attitudes towards both PA in class and online PA, but they have a slightly reserved attitude towards online PA It is also revealed that there is no significant difference between students of different majors, but male students hold more negative attitudes towards PA fairness than female students do

Key words: classroom peer assessment, online peer assessment, college English, students’ attitude