Central School of Speech and Drama
c.bryan@cssd.ac.uk
University of Ulster
tj.maguire@ulster.ac.uk
Workshop: Peer Assessment in Group work
| Cordelia Bryan Central School of Speech and Drama c.bryan@cssd.ac.uk |
Tom Maguire University of Ulster tj.maguire@ulster.ac.uk |
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| Rationale: This workshop is practical and begins with an exposition of the pedagogical value of peer assessment. Participants focus on the barriers and challenges to Peer Assessment (hereafter PA) from the perspective of a) staff; b) students; and c) the institution before learning from examples of successful practice and exploring ways of overcoming the challenges. The workshop is very practical and follows a logical course through to participants devising their own PA implementation strategies to take back to their colleagues. |
| Suitable
for: Academic Staff, students and administrators involved with assessment. Minimum 10 and maximum about 50. |
| Timings: Ideally a whole day event. 3 sessions of 90 minutes with breaks between. This allows for a more leisurely pace than the two session version below. Can also operate as a half day event with two 90 minute sessions divided by a break. When operating a two session workshop, it is essential to work out how participants can move from whole group to small group work and back with a minimum of disruption and time loss. Handouts of instructions could be produced to minimise confusion. |
| List of Exercises: Introduction to Implementing Peer Assessment (E3) Implementing Peer Assessment 2 (E4) PPT Presentation: Implementing Peer Assessment (R2) |
| Developmental Links: These two workshops should run together rather than splitting it into two sections. Neither is complete on its own. The Introduction to Implementing PA session sets the context firmly within the pedagogical theory that involving students in their own and their peers' assessment is a sound learning device with multi benefits to both assessor and 'assessee'. It explores common barriers and challenges which contribute to this mode of assessment being slow to be widely adopted. Implementing PA 2 follows straight on by using the list of challenges to implementing PA (generated by the introductory session) as the basis for exploring ways of overcoming the barriers. Participants explore creative solutions from the same three perspectives of staff, students and institution and share these along with prepared examples of successful practice. The workshop concludes by participants devising their own strategy for implementing PA at their workplace. |