Peer assessment is an efficient and effective learning assessment method that has been used widely in diverse fields in higher education. Despite its many benefits, a fundamental problem in peer assessment is that participants lack the motivation to assess others’ work faithfully and fairly. Non-consensus is a common challenge that makes the reliability of peer assessment a primary concern in p...

The study investigates in what ways the combination of self-assessment and collaborative peer assessment can support students’ creativeand critical-abilities, as well as providing opportunities for meta-cognitive learning. The study is informed by sociocultural theories research traditions and computer supported collaborative learning, CSCL. Data were collected from 22 student teachers peer ass...

Peer-assessment in education has a long history. Although the adoption of technological tools is not a recent phenomenon, many peer-assessment studies are conducted in manual environments. Automating peer-assessment tasks improves the efficiency of the practice and provides opportunities for taking advantage of large amounts of studentgenerated data, which will readily be available in electroni...

BACKGROUND Medical students have unique information about peers' professionalism but are reluctant to share it through peer assessment. METHOD Students (231 of 375; 62%) in one school replied to a survey about whether various characteristics of peer assessment (e.g., who receives the assessment, its anonymity, implications for the classmate) would prevent or encourage their participation. R...

Peer review has proved to be beneficial in project-based environments by involving students in the process and encouraging them to take ownership of their learning. This article reviews how peer assessment has been employed within group work for different engineering programs. Since the administrative burden is one of the common reported challenges of peer assessment, computer assisted peer ass...

This study reports the effects of online peer assessment, in the form of peer grading and peer feedback, on students’ learning. One hundred and eighty one high school students engaged in peer assessment via an online system—iLap. The number of gradegiving and grade-receiving experiences was examined and the peer feedback was coded according to different cognitive and affective dimensions. The e...

The purpose of the present study was to describe the peer assessment experience from the viewpoint of the students themselves in a post-secondary educational institution which organizes its curriculum according to principles of problem-based learning. Here, assessing peers’ learning within the team is a continuous (i.e., daily) activity. To that end, a questionnaire containing statements inquir...

We investigate students’ negative perceptions about an online peer assessment system for undergraduate writing across the disciplines. Specifically, we consider the nature of students’ resistance to peer assessment; what factors influence that resistance; and how students’ perceptions impact their revision work. We do this work by first examining findings from an end-of-course survey administer...