Week 5 - Online Peer Assessment

Lu and Law (2012) study breaks peer assessment into two forms that effects learning of both the assessors and assesses - Peer Grading verses Peer Feedback.

Peer Grading - 

• criteria applied for assigning grades
• challenging and time consuming
• beneficial for critical thinking
• learn more effectively

Peer Feedback - 

• evaluative feedback more important than grades
• more effective than grading
• enhances learning
• gain reflective comments
• share ideas on improving work
• given in timely manner, more frequently
• less threatening

Effects of Peer Feedback on Assessors and Students

Improves learning of both the assessor and student. Teacher can see what students know and what they need to refocus on in further classes and benefits the students as they themselves can gain knowledge with this feedback to what areas they are lacking and can improve on to help increase their learning and grades. However in saying this, as a Teacher it needs to used appropriately within the classroom and may only work for some older grades. 

I found this when doing our Design process and offering peer feedback to each other. I used the feedback I received in a positive way and used the extra knowledge and ideas given to improve and enhance my own design in ways I never thought of. Using peer feedback allows to tap into other peoples thoughts and knowledge as we all think differently which helps focus on other areas we may not have thought of ourselves.