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Tools for group and peer assessment
Facilitating peer assessment activities
There are a range of collaborative platforms that can be used to facilitate group assessment, peer assessment and feedback, and peer assessment. The list below contains some of the key technologies that may assist you.
Group assessment
Microsoft Teams
Microsoft Teams is a communication and collaboration tool that supports synchronous web meetings with video/audio, screen sharing and whiteboard; asynchronous discussion; file sharing; and it also supports the integration of a wide range of external web apps and tools.
Google Suite
Google Suite has a variety of tools to support group work from document collaboration, note sharing, collecting feedback and video meetings. Students can use productivity tools such as Google Keep to share 'to do' lists, sketches, or voice recordings with one another and keep each other up to date on their progress.
Peer assessment
Feedback Fruits
FeedbackFruits Group Member Evaluation is a tool within Moodle that allows students to share their work, give and receive feedback and grades, and gives a platform for educators to also provide feedback and allow for student interaction.
Moodle Forums
Assign a student or a group of students to a specific discussion thread to provide feedback on the student’s work.
Moodle Workshop
Workshops are a student-focused learning activity that allows students to engage in peer review and assessment in a structured multi-part activity. The workshop activity collects and distributes student work to student peers to be assessed.
Relevant Resources
Here are some relevant resources that will help support you in successfully implementing group and peer assessment in your unit.
Choosing assessment tasks
Explore the different types of assessment and how to select appropriate assessment tasks.
Collaborative learning
Use collaborative activities to effectively develop and assess skills, knowledge and attributes.
Feedback
Provide effective feedback within formative and summative assessment to improve student outcomes and learning.
Relevant policies & procedures
Monash has specific policies and procedures related to group and peer assessment. Take the time to review these to inform your teaching practice.
Marking and feedback procedure
Outlines processes and principles for marking, blind marking, second marking, double marking, provision of feedback, quality assurance, finalising results, responsibilities, and re-marking requests.
Assessment regime procedure
Explains requirements of developing and implementing an assessment regime for a unit, rules around scheduling, extensions, hurdles, alternative and supplementary assessments, and communicating assessment requirements.
Grading schema procedure
Explains the final grades that are used at Monash in a range of assessment contexts, calculations of WAM, GPA and CGPA, and rules around the use of the withdrawn incomplete (WI) grade.