Hi Richard,
No worries-I realised pretty quickly that the email group is the best
place to get support. advice and best practice.
Best Regards,
Jeff
On 23/07/2014 06:10, Richard Morris wrote:
> Hi Jeff,
>
> Yes, some great points made here. We have started the ball rolling with
> IT, and I will be making a presentation to some of the staff tomorrow
> letting them know how we plan to proceed. It is great to get such valuable
> help from members of the Community such as yourself. I will keep in touch
> as things progress.
>
> Best Regards
>
> Richard
>
>
> On 22/07/2014 9:46 pm, "Jeffrey Barrie"<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> Hi Richard,
>>
>> You will need a server administrator to upload users, groups etc via a
>> csv template. This could be an IT technician who operates the marking
>> server where WebPA is running.
>>
>> As a tutor, under 'My Groups' you can edit group formations from the
>> uploaded data.
>>
>> We implemented WebPA for exactly the same reasons, that many members of
>> student groups felt hard done by having poorly contributing members of
>> the group and receiving average marks. What we have learnt is that the
>> students should not regard WebPA as an opportunity to 'stab each other
>> in the back' and in reality it provides an opportunity for hard working
>> individuals to be recognised by their group members-so you can 'pat or
>> stab each other on the back'.
>>
>> It seems as though you wish to explore group dynamics, behaviours or
>> psychological processes-using WebPA as a metric. I'm not too sure this
>> is exactly right for this task-but what you could do is have group
>> milestone hand-ins 3/4 times across the semester, so that the students
>> understand what contribution they are peer-assessing themselves on. You
>> can assess how scores change across time, and if poor performers will
>> always remain poor-or improve over time when the group gets to know each
>> other a bit better and go from 'storming' into 'performing' stage.
>>
>> However, I would recommend you do not realise any information on how
>> each team member scored the other throughout the semester (or any
>> marks), we made this mistake in the last academic year and it nearly
>> destroyed group cohesion, creating resentment in the groups-release the
>> final assessed/averaged mark at the end of the project, when the group
>> have disbanded and they can't do detective or interrogative work to see
>> who shafted them. We never give them the base/report mark-just their
>> peer-adjusted mark.
>>
>> For sensitivity analysis, you may want to conduct a comparison between
>> non-peer assessed grades and WebPA grades from a previous years cohort
>> or a separate group. Students with a history of poor contribution may up
>> their game a bit if they realise their peers have influence on their
>> marks. Equally, you may want to select groups who have low average grade
>> students and high average grade students mixed together-for balance.
>>
>> Compiling student data into csv format and uploading is the most time
>> consuming activity-but we deal with 100-290 students-with 20 it should
>> not be a problem. We need to work on WebPA to make it more secure (with
>> existing single sign-on usernames and passwords) and access it in on a
>> campus server (rather than a dept one).
>>
>> Best Regards,
>>
>> Jeff
>>
>> Faculty of Engineering and Design
>> University of Bath
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 22/07/2014 02:40, Richard Morris wrote:
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>>
>>> Thanks for that, I found the option as you mentioned in step 2.
>>> However, I
>>> was a bit confused with how to create new groups at step 3, wondering
>>> if
>>> it is even possible in the demo. I imagine that this function becomes
>>> available, allowing you to place student email addresses in once the
>>> program is installed? My Visual Arts class will consist of a single
>>> group
>>> of approximately 10 - 20 students, who share approximately 10 to 12
>>> tasks
>>> amongst themselves.
>>>
>>> In the past, some students have been very proactive, and others
>>> discernibly inactive. Conversely, students can also get quite
>>> antagonistic
>>> toward any member of the group who express too much vision about how
>>> things should be done!
>>>
>>> It will be interesting to run WebPA for the first time and monitor how
>>> students attitudes to working in a group are affected over the course
>>> of a
>>> semester.
>>>
>>> Would it be appropriate to give the same WebPA assessment to the group
>>> on
>>> a periodic basis of 3 to 4 times throughout the semester, or does the
>>> assessment typically run just the once at the end of the group activity?
>>>
>>> Also, does your IT department finds working with WebPA time consuming,
>>> or
>>> does it run without too much bother?
>>>
>>> Thanks Jeff,
>>>
>>> Best Regards Richard
>>>
>>> On 21/07/2014 9:10 pm, "Jeffrey Barrie"<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Hi Richard,
>>>>
>>>> You can do this as an advanced option when you create an assessment (in
>>>> step 2 to be exact) called Feedback/Justification.
>>>>
>>>> The first option allows students to see if they rated below or above
>>>> average for each assessment criterion.
>>>>
>>>> The second option allows students to provide text-based
>>>> feedback/justification on their scores.
>>>>
>>>> I don't know what version you are installing, but on my install there
>>>> is
>>>> no character limit to the feedback, which one of my more IT-literate
>>>> students decided to test out by pasting an entire wikipedia article
>>>> into
>>>> the feedback box.
>>>>
>>>> That's what happens when you run WebPA trials with engineering
>>>> students!
>>>>
>>>> Best Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Jeff
>>>>
>>>> Faculty of Engineering and Design
>>>> University of Bath
>>>>
>>>> On 21/07/2014 03:30, Richard Morris wrote:
>>>>> Dear WebPA community,
>>>>>
>>>>> I am a Visual Arts Lecturer at Avondale College of Higher Education in
>>>>> Australia, and a few of my colleagues and myself are very keen to
>>>>> implement WebPA into some of our class units which require students to
>>>>> work in teams. For example, one of the classes I teach requires
>>>>> students
>>>>> work as a team to organise a group exhibition of their artwork. A
>>>>> grade
>>>>> of 20% is dedicated to such participation and WebPA looks to provide
>>>>> some real help with assigning a fair grade. I have asked our IT
>>>>> department for an estimated cost to install and run the program for a
>>>>> number of groups her at Avondale.
>>>>>
>>>>> One question I have is does WebPA offer any opportunity for students
>>>>> to
>>>>> provide extended written responses to questions? Having not yet
>>>>> installed the program, the only experience I have with WebPA, is the
>>>>> Demo test at http://webpaproject.lboro.ac.uk/the-system/
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Richard Morris
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *
>>>>> *Dr. Richard Morris*
>>>>> *
>>>>> Senior Lecturer
>>>>> School of Humanities and Creative Arts
>>>>> Faculty of Arts and Theology*
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>> Best Regards
>>>>> Richard Morris
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