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Using PeerWise to support a community of learning
Ross Galloway, Simon Bates, Karon McBride
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• Web-based MCQ repository built by students
• Students:– develop new questions with
associated explanations– answer existing questions and
rate them for quality and difficulty– take part in discussions
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• To date– 77 institutions
– 557 courses
– 33757 students have contributed
– 94207 questions have been written
– 2308854 answers have been submitted
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What we did in our course
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PeerWise was introduced in workshop sessions in Week 5
Students worked throughstructured example task and devised own Qs in groups.
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An assessment was set for the end of Week 6:
Minimum requirements:
• Write 1 question• Answer 5• Comment on & rate 3
Contributed ~3% to course assessment
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We were deliberatelyhands off.
• No moderation• No corrections• No interventions at all
But we did observe…..
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Assessment mark based on performance as determined by PeerWise score.
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What we foundengagement, examples, effects
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It’s just a gimmick…..
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Uptake for in-course assessment
(class size of ~200)
350 questions in total
~3500 answers~2000 comments
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Workshoptraining
Live Due
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They’ll put in nonsense & irrelevant questions….
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Quality of submissions:
• Average quality was very good
• Few trivial questions / nonsense distracters
• Highest quality questions were EXCEPTIONALLY good
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The questions will be poor quality… rote learning, factual recall blah blah blah…..
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The science will be all wrong……
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Perceptions
We sought student feedback both in ‘wash-up’ sessions after the assessment and in the end of course questionnaire
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Positives
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Positives
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Negatives
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… but they’ll lose interest after a while….
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Mid-semester deadline
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End-of-semester deadline
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… but you can’t prove that greater use correlates with performance….
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CA1 CA3 CA5
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Take-homes:• Provide orientation task• Set the quality bar very high• Force yourself to be hands-off• Set an assessment task• Leave the deadline as late as you can• Assessment is quality-based but light-load (no
direct marking required)• Unleash the creativity of your students!
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Marking system:
PeerWise score
assignment mark
highest score
highest score
lowest score
minimum task requirement
40%
70%
100%