Assessing%20Peer%20Performance%20in%20PBL%20Groups:%20how%20technology%20can%20help

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Assessing Peer Performance in PBL Groups how
technology can help

• Carolyn K. Manning
• Associate Professor
• Dept of Health, Nutrition Exercise Sciences
• University of Delaware
• Newark, Delaware
• USA

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Objectives

1. Describe strengths weaknesses of an online peer
   evaluation tool
2. Implement an online peer evaluation tool in your
   teaching activities

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Questions for the audience

• How many of you include peer evaluation in your
  course requirements?
• 2. Do you use this model
• Mid-semester
• give numerical score/grade comments
• award points toward final grade
• End of semester
• award points toward final grade

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Questions for the audience

• What has been your experience with peer
  evaluations?
• Paper form
• Time
• Feedback calculations, compiling comments
• Quality

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A peer evaluation process needs to be

• Easy for students to do in a meaningful
  confidential manner
• Easy for the instructor to provide feedback in a
  confidential manner
• Timely

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Peer evaluation processPaper form

• 3 sections (see handout)
• Evaluation scale Criteria for evaluation
• Individual
• group member names numerical scores
• supporting comments
• specific strength
• Group
• strength
• weakness strategy to overcome

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Paper form

• Advantages
• Easy to implement (instructor)
• Somewhat easy for students to complete

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Paper form

• Disadvantages
• Lots of paper to collect keep track of
  (instructor student)
• Time consuming (instructor) due to manual
• tabulations compilations of comments
• Quality of evaluations
• Comments (limited space, superficial)
• Inflated numeric scores

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Peer evaluation processOnline form

• Information Resource Consultant III
• John Hall
• Quiz tool in WebCT (see handout)

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Online form

• Sections
• Individual performance
• letter grade
• comments
• strength and/or weakness
• specific to research writing skills
• Group performance
• strength
• weakness strategy

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Online form (see handout)
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Online form

• Advantages
• Quality (see handout)
• No space restrictions for comments
• Easy for students
• Time spent
• Easy to track student participation
• Printed summary reports (see handout)

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Online form

• Disadvantages
• Evaluation criteria not listed
• Instructor time
• Printing reports
• (1 hour 5 min for 42 students in 9 PBL groups)
• Compiling comments grade into written feedback
  for each student (see handout)

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Questions?
Comments?
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What I learned

• Online form facilitates the peer evaluation
  process
• More depth by students in supporting comments
• Printed individual feedback for each student

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How can you have an online peer evaluation form?

• PBL WebCT Quiz Generator (see handout)
• Download http//udel.edu/hall/webct/pblgen
• Need IT help