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Publication Date: 2015
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"I'm Not Here to Learn How to Mark Someone Else's Stuff": An Investigation of an Online Peer-to-Peer Review Workshop Tool
Wilson, Michael John; Diao, Ming Ming; Huang, Leon
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, v40 n1 p15-32 2015
In this article, we explore the intersecting concepts of fairness, trust and temporality in relation to the implementation of an online peer-to-peer review Moodle Workshop tool at a Sydney metropolitan university. Drawing on qualitative interviews with unit convenors and online surveys of students using the Workshop tool, we seek to highlight a complex array of attitudes, both varied and contested, towards online peer assessment. In particular, we seek to untangle convenors' positive appraisal of the Workshop tool as a method of encouraging "meta-cognitive" skills, and student perceptions relating to the redistribution of staff marking workload vis-à-vis the peer review tool as "unfair", "time-consuming" and "unprofessional". While the Workshop tool represents an innovative approach to the development of students' meta-cognitive attributes, the competitive atmosphere that circulates, and is quietly encouraged, within the tertiary education sector limits the true collaborative pedagogical potential and capacities approach built into peer-to-peer review initiatives like the Workshop tool.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Peer Evaluation, Justice, Trust (Psychology), Computer Mediated Communication, Workshops, Qualitative Research, Interviews, Student Surveys, Online Surveys, Student Attitudes, Facilitators (Individuals), Metacognition, Integrated Learning Systems, Competition, Mixed Methods Research, Focus Groups, College Students, Colleges, Time Factors (Learning), Confidentiality
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Australia
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