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Student Engagement with Peer Assessment: A Review of Pedagogical Design and Technologies

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The paper summarizes participatory action research that explores student attitudes towards a peer assessment exercise and further reveals a distinctive pattern in student responses. A formative and reciprocal peer assessment exercise was studied to identify possible reasons for low levels of student participation. The target group included students in an undergraduate course in computing. A follow-up questionnaire, undertaken by 36 students, was analyzed and compared against assignment marks. Finally, the access statistics of the virtual learning environment (VLE) were examined. The major results indicate the following: [i] an expectation of more explanatory and supportive tutor intervention; [ii] a student preference towards anonymity; [iii] student interest in accessing peer work; and [iv] that the allocation of marks and in-class activities factors are important in encouraging student involvement.

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  • Peer Assessment
  • Peer Evaluation
  • Student Engagement
  • Formative Assessment
  • Educational Technologies

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  1. School of Computer and Advanced Technologies, Faculty of Enterprise and Innovation, Buckinghamshire New University, Queen Alexandra Road, High Wycombe, HP11 2JZ, United Kingdom

    Karen Stepanyan, Richard Mather, Hamilton Jones & Carlo Lusuardi

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  1. Department D5: Databases and Information Systems, Max-Planck-Institut für Informatik, Campus E1 4, 66123, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Marc Spaniol

  2. Department of Computer Science, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

    Qing Li & Rynson W. H. Lau & 

  3. Lehrstuhl Informatik 5, RWTH Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, 52056, Aachen, Germany

    Ralf Klamma

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Stepanyan, K., Mather, R., Jones, H., Lusuardi, C. (2009). Student Engagement with Peer Assessment: A Review of Pedagogical Design and Technologies. In: Spaniol, M., Li, Q., Klamma, R., Lau, R.W.H. (eds) Advances in Web Based Learning – ICWL 2009. ICWL 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5686. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-03426-8_44

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