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Five-hypothesis validation process for online peer assessment

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The article proposes a validation procedure in which peer assessment may only be judged valid after five prior conditions are confirmed: teacher reliability, correct test items, internal consistency of the test, reliability of the observation and marking tools, and clear, coherent marking instructions and scale schemes. The authors state that "a method which requires that five hypotheses must be confirmed before checking the validity of peer assessment" was used, operationalised through expert comparison, item analysis (difficulty and discrimination indexes), Cronbach's alpha, tool checks, and marking-scheme coherence checks before a final teacher-peer agreement analysis.

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  • Five-hypothesis validation process for online peer assessment: The article proposes a validation procedure in which peer assessment may only be judged valid after five prior conditions are confirmed: teacher reliability, correct test items, internal consistency of the test, reliability of the observation and marking tools, and clear, coherent marking instructions and scale schemes. The authors state that "a method which requires that five hypotheses must be confirmed before checking the validity of peer assessment" was used, operationalised through expert comparison, item analysis (difficulty and discrimination indexes), Cronbach's alpha, tool checks, and marking-scheme coherence checks before a final teacher-peer agreement analysis. (Bouzidi et al. (2009))

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  • Bouzidi, L., & Jaillet, A. (2009). Can Online Peer Assessment be Trusted?. Educational Technology & Society, 12(4), 257-268. https://www.ifets.info/
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title Five-hypothesis validation process for online peer assessment
description The article proposes a validation procedure in which peer assessment may only be judged valid after five prior conditions are confirmed: teacher reliability, correct test items, internal consistency of the test, reliability of the observation and marking tools, and clear, coherent marking instructio
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