CSC/ECE 517 Fall 2014/oss E1457 ags

Expertiza - Refactoring DynamicReviewMapping Controller

Introduction

It is time consuming to assess project work in a large classroom environment, and one of the best techniques to achieve this is to have students assist in this assessment. If each student is asked to assess a few (say, one to five) other students or student teams, the task requires a reasonable amount of effort; and that effort does not increase as the class gets larger. "Expertiza is a system for managing all kinds of communication that is involved in assessment: double-blind communications between authors and reviewers, assessment of teammate contributions, evaluations by course staff, and surveys of students to assess the assignment and the peer-review process." <ref>http://www.igi-global.com/book/monitoring-assessment-online-collaborative-environments/773&f=e-book</ref> "The Expertiza project is system for using peer review to create reusable learning objects."<ref>http://expertiza.ncsu.edu/</ref> Students select from a list of tasks to be performed, with several students selecting each task. Then they prepare their work and submit it to an electronic peer-review system. The work is then reviewed by other students, who offer comments to help the submitters improve their work. The best submissions for each task are then selected for use in later courses. Expertiza gets students working together to improve others’ learning experiences. It helps them learn, by making them think through the lecture material and apply it to a real-world situation, just as they might do in an on-the-job situation. These learning objects can be improved iteratively; for example, the next year’s class can be presented with the examples developed by students the previous year, and asked to identify shortcomings and develop improved examples.<ref>http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Reusable+learning+objects+through+peer+review%3A+The+Expertiza+approach%22+%22The+Expertiza+platform+is+a+divide-and-conquer%22&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C34</ref>

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