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Engaging Postgraduate Students in a Wiki-Based Multi-cycle Peer Assessment Activity

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Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education (TECH-EDU 2018)

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The use of peer assessment to assist student learning has been widely employed in educational settings. Wiki has been used as an environment to hold peer assessment activities because of its interactive nature of supporting collaboration among multiple users. This paper presents a multi-cycle peer-assessment activity where postgraduate students explore various Web 2.0 tools to develop learning objects and use a wiki for presenting their work, performing the evaluations, evaluating their assessors and presenting their revisions. The study concludes that the context of the peer-assessment activity served the roles of author and assessor adequately, the students valued the use of the wiki, and wikis are an effective tool for conducting peer-assessment activities and fostering interaction.

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    Agoritsa Gogoulou & Maria Grigoriadou

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  3. University of Ioannina, Ioannina, Greece

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Gogoulou, A., Grigoriadou, M. (2019). Engaging Postgraduate Students in a Wiki-Based Multi-cycle Peer Assessment Activity. In: Tsitouridou, M., A. Diniz, J., Mikropoulos, T. (eds) Technology and Innovation in Learning, Teaching and Education. TECH-EDU 2018. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 993. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20954-4_44

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