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Multi-disciplinary peer-mark moderation of group work

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posted on 2013-10-10, 10:21 authored by Peter Willmot, Keith Pond
Self and peer assessment offers benefits for enhancing student learning. Peer moderation provides a convenient solution for awarding individual marks in group assignments. This paper provides a significant review of peer-mark moderation, and describes an award winning, web-based tool that was developed in the UK and is now spreading across the world as an open-source web application. It is available for use in any discipline. Qualitative research, at the home institution over several years, reinforces the evaluation of quantitative data extracted from the system and from an extensive user survey to confirm, update and strengthen the previous literature. The research also describes new insights into the thoughts of students, who appear to recognise the transparency that automated moderation offers. The statistics suggest few incidences of team-collusion when entering data, but indicate that peer-marking behaviour is influenced by group size, selection method and year of study. Students comment positively on the recognition of their levels of achievement within a team.

Funding

The research was sponsored in part in the UK by The Higher Education Academy (HEA), JISC - Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) and the Engineering CETL (Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning) at Loughborough University.

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  • Mechanical, Electrical and Manufacturing Engineering

Citation

WILLMOT, P. and POND, K., 2012. Multi-disciplinary peer-mark moderation of group work. International Journal of Higher Education, 1 (1), pp. 2 - 13.

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© Sciedu Press

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  • VoR (Version of Record)

Publication date

2012

Notes

This is an Open Access Article. It is published by Sciedu Press under the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence (CC BY). Full details of this licence are available at: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/

ISSN

1927-6044

eISSN

1927-6052

Language

  • en

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