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ERIC Number: EJ918942
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2011-May
Pages: 14
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-0260-2938
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Peer Assessment Accounting for Student Agreement
Neus, Jordan L.
Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, v36 n3 p301-314 May 2011
Peer assessment has been gaining significant ground as a means of fostering an environment of accountability and responsibility for group projects in higher education. A popular peer assessment method assigns individual grades via a linear relationship to peer assessment scores. Using this method, a group member who receives his or her group's average peer assessment score is assigned the instructor-given group grade; the group member who receives a total peer assessment score of zero is assigned an individual grade of zero. Unfortunately, applying this method often requires time-consuming exploratory data analysis because of the potential for the method to yield a high spread of grades, including grades over 100%. The present study proposes a modification, which accounts for the degree of student agreement. When the modified procedure results in a change from the group grade, the direction of change is always the same, but with smaller magnitude, requiring less subsequent data analysis and instructor time demands. Easy-to-modify SAS code for applying the method is presented in the Appendix. (Contains 8 tables.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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