Peer Assessment of Group Projects in Civil Engineering

Rafiq, Yaqub; Fullerton, Hazel

doi:10.1080/0260293960210106

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“…In most of the studies identified from the literature, self and/or peer-assessment were used once in a course (Conway et al, 1993;Rafiq & Fullerton, 1996;Gatfield, 1999;Cheng & Warren, 2000;Sivan, 2000;Lejk & Wyvill, 2001;Li, 2001;Magin, 2001). However, when the course extensively requires practice, the students might have to take more than one group project in a semester.…”

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“…Peer-assessment has been used with positive outcomes by a number of investigators (Conway et al, 1993;Rafiq & Fullerton, 1996;Gatfield, 1999;Cheng & Warren, 2000;Sivan, 2000;Magin, 2001;Gupta, 2004) to assess individual contributions to a group project. Cheng & Warren (2000) concluded that peer-assessment of group members' contributions differentiated the contributions of individual 640 G. Bagci Kilic and M. Cakan students in their group projects and resulted in a fair description of each member's contribution.…”

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The analysis of the impact of individual weighting factor on individual scores

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2006

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

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In this study, category-based self and peer assessment were applied twice in a semester in an Elementary Science Teaching Methods course in order to assess individual contributions of group members to group projects as well as to analyze the impact of Individual Weighting Factors (IWF) on individual scores and individual grades. IWF were calculated by applying Conway et al.'s (1993) formula. The resulting individual scores were analyzed to find out the impact of IWF on individual scores and individual grades. It was found that the differentiation of individual scores was very large in both applications and caused dramatic changes in some of the students' grades. For this reason, the IWF had to be scaled down to decrease its effect on individual grades. After scaling down the IWF, more acceptable distribution of student grades was obtained.

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The analysis of the impact of individual weighting factor on individual scores

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2006

Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education

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“…Experiments with peer assessment of writing go back more than 25 years. 4 Peer review has been used in a wide variety of disciplines, among them accounting, 8 engineering, 7,10 mathematics, 3 and mathematics education. 6 However, electronic peer review experiments have been much rarer.…”

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Electronic peer review and peer grading in computer-science courses

Gehringer

2001

Proceedings of the Thirty-Second SIGCSE Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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We have implemented a peer-grading system for review of student assignments over the World-Wide Web and used it in approximately eight computer-science courses. Students prepare their assignments and submit them to our Peer Grader (PG) system. Other students are then assigned to review and grade the assignments. The system allows authors and reviewers to communicate with authors being able to update their submissions. Unique features of our approach include the ability to submit arbitrary sets of Web pages for review, and mechanisms for encouraging careful review of submissions. We have used the system to produce high-quality compilations of student work. Our assignment cycle consists of six phases, from signing up for an assignment to Web publishing of the final result. Based upon our experience with PG, we offer suggestions for improving the system to make it more easily usable by students at all levels.

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“…Experiments with peer assessment of writing go back more than 25 years [4]. Peer review has been used in a wide variety of disciplines, among them accounting [8], engineering [7,10], mathematics [3], and mathematics education [6].…”

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Building resources for teaching computer architecture through electronic peer review

Gehringer

2003

Proceedings of the 2003 Workshop on Computer Architecture Education Held in Conjunction With the 30th International Symposium O

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Electronic peer review is a concept that allows students to get much more feedback on their work than they normally do in a classroom setting. Students submit assignments to the system, which presents them to other students for review. Reviewer and author then communicate over a shared Web page, and the author has a chance to submit revised versions in response to reviewer comments. At the end of the period, the reviewer gives the author a grade. Each author gets reviews from several reviewers, whose grades are averaged. At the end of the review period, there is a final round when students grade each other's reviews. Their grade is determined by the quality of both their submitted work and their reviewing.This paper reports on our use of peer review in two computer architecture courses, a microarchitecture course and a parallel-architecture course. Students in these courses engaged in a variety of peer-reviewed tasks: Writing survey papers on an aspect of computer architecture, making up homework problems over the material covered in class, creating machine-scorable questions on topics covered during the semester, animating and improving graphics in the lecture presentations, and annotating the lecture notes by inserting hyperlinks to other Web documents. Students generally found these exercises beneficial to their learning experience, and they have provided resources that can be used to improve the course. In fact, with such a system, large classes are actually a blessing, since they produce better and more copious educational materials to be used in subsequent semesters.

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Peer Assessment of Group Projects in Civil Engineering

Cited by 56 publications

References 3 publications

The analysis of the impact of individual weighting factor on individual scores

The analysis of the impact of individual weighting factor on individual scores

Electronic peer review and peer grading in computer-science courses

Building resources for teaching computer architecture through electronic peer review

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