CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2019 - E1984. Improve self-review Link peer review & self-review to derive grades
E1984. Improve self-review Link peer review & self-review to derive grades
This page provides a description of the Expertiza based Semester project.
About Expertiza
Expertiza is an open source project based on Ruby on Rails framework. The Expertiza allows the instructor to create new assignments and customize new or existing assignments. It also allows the instructor to create a list of topics the students can sign up for. Students can form teams in Expertiza to work on various projects and assignments. Students can also peer review other students' submissions. Expertiza supports submission across various document types, including the URLs and wiki pages.
Team and Resources
- Team Members: Amit Mandliya, Ankit Manendra, Bharat Sinha, Daniel Mendez Lozada
Problem Statement and Overview
The Expertiza allows Instructors to create assignments with allowing self-review option to Students. Each member has to evaluate their submission with the same criteria as the peer review. Currently these scores are not used at all in the final scores for the submsission. The task here is to improve the self-review system pertaining to give it a weightage in the final scores for the submissions. Some of the objectives we try to achieve for this project are as follows –
- Provide a formula that takes both the peer review score and self-review score into account for calculating the composite score.
- The composite score should get higher as the self-review score gets closer to the peer review score.
- Make sure that the peer review scores are not visible before the self-review submission.
- Display the composite score on the “View Scores” page.
- Display the self-review scores in the "View Scores" and heat map of peer-reviews, showing that they are a different type of review.
The need for the self-review section is to know how well the students can judge their work and understand how to evaluate their flaws and rectify them. Also, if they can score themselves close to their peers, then it means that they have good self-assessment skills and they are being honest about what they think of their work.