Students' self-reported perception of peer assessment's benefit is virtually uncorrelated with their actual measured benefit¶
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q3 i0 The correlation between a student's perceived benefit of peer assessment and their estimated actual benefit was virtually zero (r = .01). → Sun DL 2015
Evidence¶
Sun DL 2015¶
Sun DL, Harris N, Walther G, Baiocchi M (2015) Peer Assessment Enhances Student Learning: The Results of a Matched Randomized Crossover Experiment in a College Statistics Class. PLoS ONE 10(12): e0143177. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0143177
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Student survey on a 1 to 5 helpfulness scale in the same crossover study; the article reports "virtually zero correlation (r = .01, p = .94)" between perceived and estimated benefit, and the median student reported peer assessment only "somewhat helpful."
"there was virtually zero correlation (r = .01, p = .94) between a student's perception of the benefit and the estimated benefit."
Discussion¶
Related Claims¶
- Peer assessment improves academic performance by a small average amount relative to no assessment or to teacher assessment — the general claim this finding bears on, with the studies behind it
- Teachers' self-reported AI literacy correlates only weakly with their objectively measured performance (r = 0.07–0.24) — a broader claim this one bears on
- Learning gains were uncorrelated with prior self-reported AI literacy and database literacy, suggesting AI integration benefited students irrespective of prior perceptions — related
- Professional commitment is essentially uncorrelated with AI literacy and shows no significant bivariate correlation with learning engagement — related
- Builders' perceived control, satisfaction, and perceived quality show no detectable association with their measured visual atypicality, so convergence goes unnoticed from the inside — related
- Perceived usefulness of ChatGPT, an invalid cue, is associated with overestimation of performance — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
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Students' self-reported perception of peer assessment's benefit is virtually uncorrelated with their actual measured benefit |
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Students' self-reported perception of peer assessment's benefit is virtually uncorrelated with their actual measured benefit |
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