The affordances of Online Peer Evaluation tools Tim Allen no relation to the Tool Man Educational Developer at the School of Mining UNSW Career Highlights 5 years at the Learning and Teaching units at Macquarie and UNSW ID: 282932
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Getting runs on the board with student group work
The affordances of Online Peer Evaluation toolsSlide2
Tim Allen (no relation to the Tool Man)
Educational Developer at the School of Mining UNSW
Career Highlights:5 years at the Learning and Teaching units at Macquarie and UNSWESL/EFL teacher in Sydney and Asia for 10 yearsEducation: MAppLing(TESOL), BLitt (English), BBSc (Psych)
IntroductionSlide3
Peer teaching – students learn from each other
Develop important interpersonal skills: cooperation, communication, leadership, negotiation, conflict resolution, etc.
Student-centred learning: taking more responsibilityPassive knowledge is activated by testing it against other’s understandings and collaborative activitiesTo prepare them for skills and qualities required in their future careers and lives Why Use Group Projects?Slide4
UNSW Graduate AttributesSlide5
Students
don't understand what they should do even after it has been explained
Students complain about their groups or make groups with their friends onlySome groups are very active and cooperative while some are very passive and quietDifficult for the instructor to know what is really happening within the group
Students
complain about their group members' effort
Students
complain that their group grade is unfair they are being penalised by weaker
team
members
Group work: common challengesSlide6
Provide a handout with an overview schedule and detailed instructions
Require students to hand in a project plan and regular progress reports
Explain why group work is important and point out learning objectives and graduate attributesTry to resolve interpersonal problems quicklyExplain the grading rationale and methodStrategies to manage challengesSlide7
The problem of group grading: Online Peer Evaluation toolsSlide8
Create a rubric (assessment criteria and standards) for students to use
Create an assessment and schedule its opening and closing times
Towards the end of the project, students login and anonymously peer-assess and (optionally) self-assess each other; the teacher also gives each group a markFrom these self-assessment marks, each student gets a peer-assessment weighting, e.g. 1.1The weighting is multiplied by the group mark to produce each student's final grade for the group projectOptionally students can login and review their anonymous feedback
Online Peer Evaluation: How It WorksSlide9
Group projects are
common
Diverse international student body“SPARK PLUS” “WebPA”
Case Study: Trialling a New Tool at Mining UNSWSlide10
Problems:
Complicated interface
No integration with LMS: no SSO, manual user enrolment, manual gradingTime-consuming and fiddlySPARK PLUSSlide11
Advantages:
Integrated
with the UNSW LMS (Moodle): SSO, automatic enrolment & grade publishingMore intuitive interfaceOpen source software: can be customised locallyWebPASlide12
Q&A
Any Questions?