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Question 19
How can peer assessment be used as part of e-assessment?
Ian Jones
Niclas LarsonWhat motivates this question?
Peer assessment (Topping, 2009) can be attractive to (i) engage students with assessment, (ii) promote learning through students viewing one anothers’ work, (iii) promote learning through discussion about what constitutes high quality work, (iv) reduce workload on the lecturer in summative assessment contexts. There has been much work on peer assessment in higher education, and this field increasingly involves technology to support peer assessment, e.g. Ashenafi (2017). The focus here of course is on specifically mathematics, although it may not be obvious how some mathematics-specific e-assessment technologies can support peer assessment activities (e.g. not obvious how STACK and such systems would be used in this way). The focus may then be on e-assessments that lends themselves to peer assessment my support mathematcs learning (e.g. comparative judgement lends itself to peer assessment).
What might an answer look like?
Evaluated models of peer assessment (e.g. Jones & Alcock, 2014) and reviews of the literature (e.g. Chang, Lee, Tang & Hwang, 2021).
Related questions
- The issue of peer assessmen, with or without justifications, is related to Q44: How can e-assessment using comparative judgment support learning?
- Q44: How can e-assessment using comparative judgment support learning?
References
- Ashenafi, M. M. (2017). Peer-assessment in higher education–twenty-first century practices, challenges and the way forward. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 42(2), 226-251. https://doi.org/10.1080/02602938.2015.1100711
- Chang, C. Y., Lee, D. C., Tang, K. Y., & Hwang, G. J. (2021). Effect sizes and research directions of peer assessments: From an integrated perspective of meta-analysis and co-citation network. Computers & Education, 164, 104123. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2020.104123
- Jones, I., & Alcock, L. (2014). Peer assessment without assessment criteria. Studies in Higher Education, 39(10), 1774–1787. https://doi.org/10.1080/03075079.2013.821974
- Topping, K. J. (2009). Peer assessment. Theory into practice, 48(1), 20-27. https://doi.org/10.1080/00405840802577569