Online Self and Peer Assessment Software

Development of authoring software for peer and self assessment of text based exercises using the web as an interface

Dr Richard Parsons University of Dundee

Access the web-based program

Instructions for using the program

Guidance that can be provided to students for completing assessments

File containing an introduction to the program and the instructions

Self and peer assessment are two important techniques that can be used to learn a variety of skills that are important in the educational development of learners. Textual answers to questions are often used to illustrate understanding and marking schemes can be used to check the quality, range, depth and form of the answer. The tool provided here automates this process allowing a lecturer to set a question, specify the marking criteria and present this as a web-form based system to their students. The students enter their answers, self mark their entry and peer mark two colleagues answers.

The system now includes an internal check for plagiarism, which will check all the student text against all other student text, and the instructor can upload additional textbook, website or lecture material that will also be checked for matching text.

The University of Dundee has worked with Blackboard to create a new Self and Peer Assessment system that is embedded within the Blackboard Learning System. We now recommend this new tool.

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