Reflections on Peer assessment. The 'Evaluation' of the design challenge - week 5

This week I delved into the unknown world of having to assess and give feedback to a peer on their design challenge. I was quite scared to do this, even though the girl I was assessing seemed lovely when working with her through our group wiki, I didn't want her to take things personal or think I was attacking her work or idea.

Lu & Law (2011) found that students involved in peer grading plus qualitative feedback were more satisfied and showed grater improvements in their tasks.

It was rather a simple task when I got down to it. I just used the information she had provided of her design challenge posted on our group wiki and filled in the information. When I needed to give my opinion on something I tried to be as honest as I could and give constructive criticism rather than just criticise something.

These prompt cards provided the basis for the peer evaluation I used which was put into a table format by a member of our group (thanks Bec!).

These cards would be a very effective tool to use in a classroom when teaching students about peer analysis and what to look for in a product. They provide great visuals which appeal to students as well as questions that get minds thinking about what type of things they should be looking for when evaluation something.

Reference:

Lu, J., Law, N., (2011) Online peer assessment effects of cognitive and effective feedback. Retrieved from: http://eds.b.ebscohost.com.ezproxy.cqu.edu.au/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?sid=5b7e2ee4-d80e-40a2-8cdd-9a5c24e90b9c%40sessionmgr112&vid=1&hid=120

Prompt cards retrieved from www.tes.co.uk/