Some Refinements on Peer Assessment of Group Projects
- 1 January 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education
- Vol. 26 (1) , 5-18
- https://doi.org/10.1080/0260293002002255
Abstract
As the demand for group projects in higher education has increased in recent years, it is necessary to device an assessment method that results in fair grading of project group members. An attempt has been made to apply an existing peer assessment approach from Goldfinch to engineering student group projects. The results confirm the validity of the approach. However, the existing approach has a number of problems owing to the inevitable bias introduced by individual students during the peer assessment process. A new normalisation process is introduced to iron out the inherent shortcomings of the existing peer assessment method. The experience gained so far has led us to believe that this peer assessment method with normalisation can be used as a tool to assess individual marks of a group project.Keywords
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