Agreement of Assessments
A workshop assignment can have either of these characteristics:
- In the submission and assessment phase the students see the
assessments made by other students. There is no feedback
from the students who submitted the work to the students who made
the assessment. That is, there is only one way feedback between
peers on any one piece of work.
- In the submission and assessment phase the students see the
assessments made by other students and they are allowed to comment
on these assessments. They may agree or disagree with the (peer) assessment.
If they agree with the assessment then the assessment stands and is
used in the final calculations when determining the peer grade given to
the particular piece of work. If, however, they do not agree with an
assessment the student who made the assessment is given an
opportunity to revise it. The revise/disagree loop can continue until
either agreement is reached or the deadline is reached. An assessment
which is still in "dispute" when the deadline is reached
is not used in the final grades. This gives two way feedback
between peers on each piece of work.
If the second method of working is chosen there is the option of switching off the display
of grades. That is, if this "hide grades" option is exercised, only the comments
in the assessment are shown to the student who work is being assessed.
The grades are shown only after agreement has been reached (on the
comments alone). Note that this option only effective when agreement on
assessments is required.
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