Upon completing a group assignment students are required to submit an individual peer review using blackboard services. This is an anonymous process and no meeting minutes are required. The blackboard then allocates the final grades automatically to each student according to their peer marks. If a student did not submit a peer review before the deadline he is marked down. The peer review contributes to 10% of the final assignment mark.
167 students from AC1033 and AC1047 modules.10% of the final assignment mark.
Students are given the deadline to submit the peer review, which is usually after the submission date of the group work. They can then login to blackboard and find the peer review link in the assessment folder. No meeting minutes are required. A 24 hour reminder to submit a review is emailed before the deadline.
Peer assessment is an important part of the group work and it encourages students to do their best, while knowing that their final mark will depend on the evaluation by their peers. It is also time efficient to make the review system available on blackboard and having the final marks calculated automatically.
It is a great way to allow students to evaluate each other’s work and it motivates to contribute more to the project. I am certainly going to continue using this approach. Every year, however, we still have students who fail to submit the peer review in time despite receiving a 24 hour reminder.
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Agriculture, Food and Rural Development
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