Web-based Peer Assessment for Software Engineering Team Project
Stage 2 Software Engineering students, Marie Devlin, Senior Tutor and Stage 2 Coordinator
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.
In order to make students think about their contribution to the project in relation to other students.
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.
Web-based Peer Assessment for Software Engineering Team Project
Assessment and Feedback, Skills and Employability, Student Engagement
Undergraduate (Stage 2)
Computing Science
Other
Up to 10 students in a group
In response to issues