Hi Nic,
Your response is good advice but what you tell me about what they're
doing, my feeling is that they've not explained the process adequately
in the first place, which is crucial to students fully engaging with the
process - which would avoid such questions from students in the first
place.
However, I would advise the academic to remind the student that this
work is based on years of experience from academics and which is also
informed by the research - so its not just something the tutor is
experimenting with, its based on tried and tested teaching research.
You could get the tutor to point the student to the help explaining the
algorithm in the WebPA help documents, or I point my students to the
paper by Li 2001, which uses a similar algorithm (I also provide a cut
down example for them). Ideally this should all be done at the start of
the activity. :-)
Regards
Paul
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From: WebPA Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicola
Wilkinson
Sent: 14 January 2009 11:14
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Subject: QUESTION: How to rely to students
Hi All,
This morning I have been contacted by an academic tutor who will be
using the WebPA tool to assess group work. At the moment the assessment
is not open, however, they are receiving emails from a student concerned
about the effect of WebPA being fair. Their concerns are pivoted around
the quality of work produced by the group being low, that they are doing
the majority of work and that the group are already friends.
Can any of you please provide some guidance that I can pass on to the
tutor? For example, there something that we can point the student to
showing WebPA is fair or do you have general guides you use with
students.
At present I have told the academic tutor to encourage the student to
complete the assessment and explain that they are looking into the
situation.
Any help would be of great help.
Thanks in advance,
Nic
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WebPA Project, engCETL
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