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Web-based Peer Assessment for Software Engineering Team Project

Submitted by: Marie Devlin (marie.devlin@ncl.ac.uk)
Computing Science, Software Engineering

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What did you do?

Web-based Peer Assessment for Software Engineering Team Project

Who is involved?

Stage 2 Software Engineering students, Marie Devlin, Senior Tutor and Stage 2 Coordinator

How do you do it?

All Stage 2 Software Engineering students participate in a year-long group project. Students are randomly allocated to their groups. They have to complete web-based peer assessment twice during the project, both at the end of the 1st semester, and then at the end of the project. Students have to rate themselves and their peers against 10 categories relating to skills and graduate attributes, such as contribution to meetings and communication skills. They also expand upon their answers through comments. Despite the anonymous nature of the web-PA, students were reluctant to have the comments shared. A poll was taken via Facebook, and the majority voted against sharing the comments, but the numerical ratings are averaged and used as a weighting for sharing out marks for the team assessments.

Why do you do it?

In order to make students think about their contribution to the project in relation to other students.

Does it work?

By requesting not to see comments made by other students about their performance, students are missing out on valuable feedback. This year, students write the comments with the knowledge that these will be shared.

Your title

Web-based Peer Assessment for Software Engineering Team Project

Coherent Curriculum themes

Assessment and Feedback, Skills and Employability, Student Engagement

Students\' Stage

Undergraduate (Stage 2)

Academic unit

Computing Science

Learning technologies

Other

Type of interaction

Up to 10 students in a group

Main trigger for your practice

In response to issues

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