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| Abstract Title: | The benefits of giving feedback: investigating student exchanges over PeerWise |
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| Abstract: | Encouraging students to write their own multiple-choice questions is a valuable academic exercise, placing high cognitive demands on the learner. Students must be able to synthesize course materials to construct a question, provide plausible distractors (wrong answers) and explain their answers. A popular online question generation application is PeerWise. PeerWise enables students to provide feedback to question authors in the form of comments. Providing feedback encourages students to think critically about their peers? submissions; to problem solve by suggesting possible improvements; and to reflect upon their own performance in light of these processes, enhancing their understanding. Three main research questions are addressed: 1. What types of comments do students write? 2. Which type of comment is most strongly associated with exam performance? 3. Is writing high quality comments associated with exam performance ? |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Alison E Kay The University of Edinburgh School of Physics and Astronomy, James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh, EH9 3FD |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Judy Hardy, The University of Edinburgh |
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