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ASSESSMENT & EVALUATION IN HIGHER EDUCATION
Volume 40, Issue 1, Pages 15-32Publisher
ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2014.881980
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peer review; peer assessment; Moodle; fairness; online
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In this article, we explore the intersecting concepts of fairness, trust and temporality in relation to the implementation of an online peer-to-peer review Moodle Workshop tool at a Sydney metropolitan university. Drawing on qualitative interviews with unit convenors and online surveys of students using the Workshop tool, we seek to highlight a complex array of attitudes, both varied and contested, towards online peer assessment. In particular, we seek to untangle convenors' positive appraisal of the Workshop tool as a method of encouraging 'meta-cognitive' skills, and student perceptions relating to the redistribution of staff marking workload vis-a-vis the peer review tool as 'unfair', 'time-consuming' and 'unprofessional'. While the Workshop tool represents an innovative approach to the development of students' meta-cognitive attributes, the competitive atmosphere that circulates, and is quietly encouraged, within the tertiary education sector limits the true collaborative pedagogical potential and capacities approach built into peer-to-peer review initiatives like the Workshop tool.
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