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Subject:

Re: Selfishness?

From:

Paul A Chin <[log in to unmask]>

Reply-To:

Paul A Chin <[log in to unmask]>

Date:

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 13:43:11 -0000

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text/plain (132 lines) , Peer assessment_scoring example.pdf (132 lines) , Unknown Name (4 lines)

The algorithm used in WebPA is similar to the one published by Li in
2001. When I introduce students to peer assessment I make the process
clear and make an example marking available (attached) so they can see
how the algorithm cuts out this potential bias - because it can work
both ways - with a generous student ending up with a lower mark for
themselves.

As Peter says, it isn't perfect and judgement comes in somewhere. For
me, I get students to document their activities so that I can refer to
the evidence in case of dispute or 'strange' marking habits. Works fine
for me and only one contested mark in five years which was subsequently
withdrawn once I read that they never attended meetings or did any
work...

I think there is also a logged request for a range of algorithms to be
available, since there is more than one way to divide marks, it just
depends on your preference.

Regards

Paul

Li, L. K. Y. (2001). Some Refinements on Peer Assessment of Group
Projects. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, Carfax Publishing
Company. 26: 5-18.



-----Original Message-----
From: WebPA Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Peter
Willmot
Sent: 08 December 2008 12:10
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Selfishness?

Hi

This is the dilemma of self and peer assessment - should you give them
control (when control inevitably leaves it open to this kind of abuse.
Having had experience of WebPA for over 10 years, here is my take on it
in bullet form.

1) Using Web-PA you only allow students partial control - because you
can check (and query if necessary all results that you think are
erroneous after the marking is submitted). Normally very little, if any
editing is required.
2) When I introduce Web-PA I always make it clear that marking is
anonymous except that the only other person who will see the detailed
breakdown is ME! I am careful to advise them that their marks are likely
to be monitored.
3) It is true that weak students generally overplay their contribution
but it is also just as true that other members of a team with a weak
student tend to be over-critical of him/her and mark them perhaps lower
than is justified.  The scenario you paint is rare in my experience and
could probably be picked up prior to final publication.
4) There is an academic case that students undergoing teamwork have a
responsibility for the cohesion of the team. t Hence a mechanism for
moderating the overoptimistic or downright inaccurate scores of a weak
student and for the potentially vindictive scores of peer members is a
good thing and Web-Pa effectively provides that through self and peer
assessment.
5) The main drivers for this imperfect, yet sound solution are - a) to
give the students responsibility and make them think about what is good
and bad work b) I have not yet found a better solution to group marking
and c) there is much evidence that the students who use this system and
generally more content than with other systems.

Have a look at my paper on this at
http://www.engsc.ac.uk/journal/index.php/ee/issue/view/21

At the end of the day, the decision is yours.

Regards

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: WebPA Project [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Nicola
Wilkinson
Sent: 08 December 2008 11:01
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Selfishness?

I have received an email from Mike asking about selfishness within
WebPA. Can anyone help to answer his question (see the email text below)

Thanks
Nic

--------------------------------------------
Nicola Wilkinson
eLearning Systems Developer
WebPA Project, engCETL

Web: http://webpaproject.lboro.ac.uk/
JISCmail: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/lists/webpa.html
Project Blog: http://webpa-tec.blogspot.com/
--------------------------------------------

Hi there.

I'm very interested in the WebPA system but I have been looking over the
documentation and I can't see any way of preventing students from
selfishly
manipulating marks to boost there own scores. Is there a mechanism that
you
haven't explained in the demonstrations, or is the only solution to
prevent
students from assessing themselves (something I don't want to do)?

What I mean is, say a report for a 4-person group got 80%, and I had
decided to use a 40% PA weighting. Therefore, each student effectively
controls a 10% stake of their 80% mark. What is to prevent one of them
from
marking themselves 5/5 on every criterion and their peers 1/5? Assuming
the
other scores were completely even, this would give them a webPA score of
1.375. 1.375 x 40% = 55%, giving a total score for the selfish student
of
95% and scores for the others of 0.875 x 40% + 40% = 75%. Essentially,
the
selfish student has taken 5% from each of the others. Is there a flag to
alert the assessor of this? In this example it would be fairly obvious,
but
I imagine that when the other numbers vary it would be easy to miss
that.

Thanks,

Mike



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