Experiences with Web-based Peer Assessment of Coursework
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We describe experiments with a web-based system for peer assessment in a course on automata theory and program semantics. The paper describes the web-based assessment system, and experiences from the first round of use in 2011. We find a correlation between a high level of peer reviewing activity and a high grade obtained at written exam.
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