1.1 – Introduction Mail
From: Jentges Erik
Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2018 17:17
Subject: didactica course on “Designing Peer Assessment Exercises”
Dear didactica course participants,
Welcome to the course “Designing Peer Assessment Exercises”. I am looking forward to working with you on March 5th, 13-17h at ETH Zürich, Rämistr. 101, 8092 Zürich, room D 18.1.
We will have four hours to dive into the topic of peer assessments, which is not too much time when considering that peer assessment covers a broad field. Peer assessment can mean that students give constructive feedback to their peers or that they review and grade other students’ works with a rubric. It can be done in class and on paper, or as homework with online tools. We will be mainly looking at peer assessments that use the online tool “Peergrade”. I will also have material for paper-based peer assessments ready in case you want to set up such an activity with your students.
The course covers:
- Introduction to Peer Assessment
- Discussion of the peer assessment cycle
- The conversational framework
- Designing a peer assessment exercise
- Rubric construction
There will be inputs, interactive group work, and of course, practicing peer feedback. I am sure that the 4 hours in class will fly by quickly. And I hope that you will find them informative and useful. Yes, there will also be a coffee break. Please bring your laptop to the course.
To make good use of the short time that we have in the course, I want you to prepare something before we meet.
I would like you to do three things until Friday, March 2nd, 20:00h:
- Create a free user-account on Peergrade.* Go to peergrade.io/join to join the class with this code: B2NYVM
- Write a short draft of a peer assessment exercise (please work with the attached template and choose assignment A or B). Ideally, you can draft (A) an activity that you can later implement with your students. Alternatively, you can create (B) a personal feedback request (e.g. if you need feedback from colleagues on an article, a presentation, etc.)
- Submit your draft on Peergrade (The assignment will give you a student’s experience. In the course, I will upgrade you with a “teacher” account so that you to get to know the instructor’s view).
If you have questions or if you want to share your expectations on the course with me, simply write me an email.
Kind regards,
Erik Jentges
Assignment (pdf)
*Peergrade is a Danish Edtech startup that provides a state-of-the-art solution for peer feedback. It is a cloud-based platform. To use Peergrade, you have to register. Using the platform means that your data will be stored by Peergrade on Amazon Cloud Services in Ireland/EU. Swiss and EU data privacy regulations have a similar standard. Peergrade’s privacy policy can be found here. [info added 27.03.2018, ej]
