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Online Student Peer Reviews

Online Student Peer Reviews. William J. Wolfe Professor of Computer Science California State University Channel Islands william.wolfe@csuci.edu. Online Peer Reviews: Outline. Pros and cons Implementation Considerations Students Websites Course Website Peer Review Process Results.

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Online Student Peer Reviews

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  1. Online Student Peer Reviews William J. Wolfe Professor of Computer Science California State University Channel Islands william.wolfe@csuci.edu

  2. Online Peer Reviews: Outline • Pros and cons • Implementation Considerations • Students Websites • Course Website • Peer Review Process • Results

  3. Peer Reviews – Pro • Students learn from each other. • Students get lots of feedback. • Students develop skills as evaluators. • Students learn to appreciate evaluation criteria. • Students see how they compare to their peers. • Students see the class from teacher’s perspective. • Students get to know each other. • Teacher plays role of supervisor (A much better use of the teacher’s skills/knowledge).

  4. Peer Reviews – Con • Students don’t know the subject. • Students are not skilled evaluators. • Students can not, or will not, do that much work. • Students will copy (cheat)! • Keeping track of the reviews is very difficult. • Student privacy.

  5. Considerations • What type of assignment? • How many reviews does each student do? • How many reviews does each student get? • Who reviews whom? • Does the reviewer have to be “qualified”? • Will students grade fairly and accurately? • Anonymous reviews? • Grades based on peer reviews? • Grade the peer reviews? • Opportunity to revise based on reviews? • Peer review of the peer reviews?

  6. Peer Review System

  7. Student Website • Students use their own website. • Students must have basic web page skills. • Student must have access to a web server. • Student cannot (easily) hide their identity.

  8. Weekly Assignments

  9. Course Website • Instructor sets up a course website • Web pages • Database • Server-side scripts • Let’s try it out:

  10. Peer Review Process • Student logs on the course website • Sees list of links to other students pages • Accesses student assignments • Enters “score + comment” for each review

  11. Entering a Peer Review

  12. Grading Criteria (Rubric)

  13. Sample Peer Review  ”Looks pretty good”

  14. Perfunctory Reviews perfunctory \pur-FUNGK-tuh-ree\ --adjective : Done merely to carry out a duty; performed mechanically; done in a careless and superficial manner; characterized by indifference

  15. Sample Peer Review You should have requirements that detail the concepts in section 4.2. Although you had some very good points (i.e. the database should look up student's degree requirements; view should list courses, etc...) almost all your requirements can be more detailed. Go through section 4.2 (each of the sections) and think of what the program would need to do to effective run. Some good examples of what requirements are necessary are on others' websites, however I'll give some to you now:1.Is there a timeline requirement?2.Is there a requirement on how much(or how little) this will cost?3.Is there security requirements?4.Is there user view requirements?These(and many other questions) are what you should answer in your requirements definition document. Good luck on Assignment #3.

  16. Let’s try it out: http://faculty.csuci.edu/william.wolfe/ucd/online/

  17. Summary Stimulated class activity. Some passionate participation. The “audience effect”: brought up all performance levels. Very accurate evaluations (as a whole). Immediate access to examples of good and poor work. Addressed late, incomplete, and sloppy work. Needed access to web servers and web page skills.

  18. References 1. Online Student Peer Reviews, Proceedings of ACM SIGITE Annual Conference, Salt Lake City Utah, Oct. 28-30, 2004. 2. Student Peer Reviews in an Upper-Division Mathematics Class, exchanges THE ONLINE JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN THE CSU, (From the Classroom), September, 2003. 3. Course Web Site: http://compsci.csuci.edu/wwolfe/ucd/online Password: GUEST 4. William.Wolfe@csuci.edu

  19. Acknowledgements Carol Holder (Director of Faculty Development CSUCI) Paul Rivera (Economics, CSUCI) Harley Baker (Psychology, CSUCI) Bob Bleicher (Education, CSUCI) Ivona Grzegorzcyk (Mathematics, CSUCI) Todd Gibson (Colorado Institute of Technology) Michael Cook (Forstmann Leff).

  20. Peer Reviews – How? • Student Web Pages: • Students post homework solutions on their own web page. • Course Web Site: • Set up course web site to manage all the peer review activity. Keep track of: • Links to student web pages, • Peer Reviews: • Scores, • Comments. • Anonymous reviews.

  21. The Course Web Site

  22. List of Student Links

  23. Student Web Pages

  24. Peer Reviews Received

  25. Average Peer Review Score

  26. Scoring Comparison

  27. Number of Reviews • Software Engineering (CSC 4508): • 34 students • Theory: • 1 Assignment: 1,122 reviews. • 15 Assignments: 16,830 reviews. • Fact: • 1 Assignment: 300 – 400 reviews. • 15 Assignments: 5,212 reviews.

  28. Software Engineering (CSC4508) Fall 2002

  29. Software Engineering (CSC 4508) Fall 2002

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