Using Student Peer Assessment in Group Work to Enhance Learning and Engagement

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Giving and receiving feedback is a skill valued by employers (Jacques, 2000) and improves learning (Falchikov, 2001; Hamer, Purchase, Luxton-Reilly & Denny, 2014).  In this session I will describe a variety of ways I have used student peer assessment in group projects.  Student peer assessment can be done individually or in groups, used formatively or summatively and can evaluate student academic work as well as their contributions to a team.  I will show how Canvas and IPeer can be used to implement student peer assessment and briefly discuss student experiences. 

By the end of this session, participants should be able to:

•  list several ways student peer assessment can be incorporated into group work;
• briefly describe some of the potential pitfalls of using student peer assessment and how to avoid them; and
•  decide on next steps for incorporating student peer assessment in their own teaching.

Presenter: Silvia Bartolic, PhD.  Sociology, Faculty of Arts

Silvia Bartolic is an Instructor in the Department of Sociology. Her interests follow two distinct lines, one in the area of teaching and learning, the other in family sociology.  On the teaching and learning side, she works in the areas of the scholarship of educational leadership, the scholarship of teaching and learning, distance/blended/flipped classroom learning and collaborative, active and problem based learning.  In family sociology, her interests center on ways relationships (dating, cohabitation, marriage, parent-child) result in health and well-being throughout the life course.