{"id":1607,"date":"2018-11-07T08:46:57","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:46:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/?p=1607"},"modified":"2018-11-07T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T15:47:21","slug":"1607","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/catherinerawn\/2018\/11\/07\/1607\/","title":{"rendered":"Conference Follow-Up Questions on Peer Assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Someone who attended my conference presentation last month about Peer Assessment (see the blog entry here for slides<\/a>), sent me some follow-up questions that I thought might be useful to capture here. Thanks for your questions!\u00a0<\/em>My responses are signaled by >>.<\/p>\n

* How do you train students in the use of a rubric and in effective peer review, particularly in such a large class?<\/p>\n

>> we developed the Peer Assessment Training workshop, which can be adapted for anyone to use https:\/\/peerassessment.arts.ubc.ca\/<\/a> . If you have access to Canvas there’s a template and a demo in the Commons. If you don’t, stay tuned to our peerassessment website\u2026 we’re working on a fully open WordPress version for launch soon.<\/p>\n

* How do your students respond to being graded by novice peers like themselves, rather than a more expert instructor or TA?\u00a0 Does it take some convincing, or do you just present the evidence of the effectiveness of peer assessment and move on?<\/p>\n

>> there is a range of opinions\u2026 but there’s a range of opinions about every pedagogical decision! I show them the evidence, make sure the assessment isn’t valued too highly, and give people a form to submit to have their grade re-evaluated by me if they want. That takes care of most concerns.<\/p>\n

* You mentioned Peter Graf also assesses the quality of the peer assessments as well; do you know how he handles this?\u00a0 (For instance, does the student being evaluated also reciprocally evaluate their peer reviewer?\u00a0 Or is it something the TA does?)<\/p>\n

>> He and his TAs grade the comments. It moves pretty quickly when they’re exported in a spreadsheet.<\/p>\n

* In your slides, you mention two additional challenges: Students don’t trust each other, and comments were poor quality.\u00a0 How did you address those challenges?\u00a0 Any recommendations\/ideas for how you would do it in the future?<\/p>\n

>> The strategies above generally address these concerns.<\/p>\n

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>> If you’d like to try it out but are nervous about scale, you could always treat it as an opt-in pilot, so a sub-group of students try it out and give feedback. In a class of 440 I’m sure you can find at least a dozen students willing to participate\u2026 that’s one nice thing about very large classes!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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