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Four-category coding scheme for peer assessment designs

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The review defines peer assessment as "a learning phenomenon where individuals or social constellations (e.g., pair, group, team, community)—within a physical and/or virtual environment—exchange, react to, interact and/or act upon information about individual performance and/or individual contributions" with the purpose of accomplishing shared and individual learning goals. It extends Topping's (1998) definition to cover social constellations and virtual environments, and frames instructional scaffolds provided by agents (teacher, peer, self, technology) as fadable supports. The definition underpins a coding scheme of 27 design elements grouped into four categories: context (what designers cannot manipulate), instructional design (what designers can manipulate), outcomes, and moderators/mediators.

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  • Refined definition of peer assessment as a learning phenomenon in social constellations, organized by a four-category coding scheme: The review defines peer assessment as "a learning phenomenon where individuals or social constellations (e.g., pair, group, team, community)—within a physical and/or virtual environment—exchange, react to, interact and/or act upon information about individual performance and/or individual contributions" with the purpose of accomplishing shared and individual learning goals. It extends Topping's (1998) definition to cover social constellations and virtual environments, and frames instructional scaffolds provided by agents (teacher, peer, self, technology) as fadable supports. The definition underpins a coding scheme of 27 design elements grouped into four categories: context (what designers cannot manipulate), instructional design (what designers can manipulate), outcomes, and moderators/mediators. (Alqassab et al. (2023))

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Key Sources

  • Alqassab, M., Strijbos, J.-W., Panadero, E., Fernández Ruiz, J., Warrens, M., & To, J. (2023). A Systematic Review of Peer Assessment Design Elements. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09723-7
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title Four-category coding scheme for peer assessment designs
description The review defines peer assessment as "a learning phenomenon where individuals or social constellations (e.g., pair, group, team, community)—within a physical and/or virtual environment—exchange, react to, interact and/or act upon information about individual performance and/or individual contributi
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