CSC/ECE 517 Spring 2018- Project E1819: Improve self review, link self and peer review to derive grades

Introduction and Problem Statement

Expertiza has the ability to require self reviews on projects, however, these self review scores do not have much functionality. In the current system, self review scores are created and stored, but are not used afterwards. This project seeks to improve upon the self review system, and extend its functionality. The main points of this project are as follows:

• Display the self review scores in the "View Scores" page juxtaposed with peer review scores.
• Display the self review scores in the heat map of peer reviews, with some way to denote they are a different type of review.
• Create a method to calculate a linked score between self and peer reviews. The closer the self review is to the peer review, the greater the score. Display this score on the "View Scores" page.
• Ensure that users cannot view peer reviews until they complete their self review.

Planned Approach

1. Remove ability to see peer reviews before submitting a self review
2. Create/find a function to link peer and self review scores
3. Implement function in a method that will be used when a self review is submitted
4. Create the different displays for self reviews

Score Formulas

Several potential formulas to calculate the derived score between self and peer reviews were discussed. A naive approach is to find the difference between the max score and the difference between self and peer reviews. A slight change to this approach is to take into account the peer score, so the greater your peers believe you performed, the greater your score is (proportional to the difference between reviews still). However, this approach can prove to be harmful. Below it can be seen that even when you perfectly reflect the score of your peers your grade can be very low. This approach punishes students twice for low peer review grades, and it should be avoided. A third approach is discussed here. Which results in a score that should accurately reflect the relation between self and peer scores. However, it can again be seen that when peer review scores are low students are punished twice unless they can accurately reflect their peer's reviews. A fourth approach is to derive the grade based on the percent difference between the self review score, and the peer review scores. This results in a smooth gradient which does not punish students as harshly as the previous two approaches. However, at low scores students will see greater swings in this derived grade.

Testing

Test cases are as follows:

• Peer reviews cannot be viewed before a self review is completed.
• Peer reviews can be viewed immediately when self reviews are not required.
• The derived scores can be saved to the database.
• Self review scores are displayed with peer review scores
• Student can only see their own self review

Reference

Our Repo link our pull request link (placeholders until programming begins)