Peering into large lectures: examining peer and expert mark agreement using peerScholar, an online peer assessment tool.

As class sizes increase, methods of assessments shift from costly traditional approaches (e.g. expert-graded writing assignments) to more economic and logistically feasible methods (e.g. multiple-choice testing, computer-automated scoring, or peer assessment). While each method of assessment has its...

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Publicado en:Journal of Computer Assisted Learning Vol. 24; no. 6; pp. 526 - 541
Autores principales: Paré DE, Joordens S
Formato: pictorial research tables/charts Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Dec2008
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          Paré DE
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          Achievement Tests
          Peer Group
          Software
          Students, College
          Colleges and Universities
          Computer-Assisted Instruction
          Critical Thinking Education
          Descriptive Statistics
          Education, Baccalaureate
          Feedback
          Fisher's Exact Test
          Internet
          Interrater Reliability
          Ontario
          Outcomes of Education
          Pearson's Correlation Coefficient
          Random Assignment
          Reading Education
          Unpaired T-Tests
          Writing Education
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