TY - GEN
T1 - Using online peer feedback tools to improve undergraduate group interaction and assessment quality
AU - Emery, Kirsty Louise
AU - Shephard, Mark Douglas
AU - Matthews, Susan Janet
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - In higher education, sophisticated online learning management systems offer educators unprecedented opportunity to design and implement assessment-specific feedback rubrics with relative ease. In 2022, Feedback Fruits, a flexible, online feedback tool, became available at Flinders University (Australia) with system migration to Canvas. This study evaluated the acceptability and impact of online peer feedback rubrics introduced to a group assessment in a 3rd year, undergraduate, medical science topic. In this study, online feedback participation rates were high (range 84.3-96%), with participants preference for anonymous feedback (77%). Mean peer evaluation scores improved for information sharing, task completion and discussion at final assessment; with feedback received ranked ‘high’ by 56.8% of students. Mean group evaluation scores improved for topic coverage, poster format and referencing at final assessment; with feedback received ranked ‘high’ by 59.1% of. students. In summary, online peer feedback improved student engagement and group assessment learning in this topic.
AB - In higher education, sophisticated online learning management systems offer educators unprecedented opportunity to design and implement assessment-specific feedback rubrics with relative ease. In 2022, Feedback Fruits, a flexible, online feedback tool, became available at Flinders University (Australia) with system migration to Canvas. This study evaluated the acceptability and impact of online peer feedback rubrics introduced to a group assessment in a 3rd year, undergraduate, medical science topic. In this study, online feedback participation rates were high (range 84.3-96%), with participants preference for anonymous feedback (77%). Mean peer evaluation scores improved for information sharing, task completion and discussion at final assessment; with feedback received ranked ‘high’ by 56.8% of students. Mean group evaluation scores improved for topic coverage, poster format and referencing at final assessment; with feedback received ranked ‘high’ by 59.1% of. students. In summary, online peer feedback improved student engagement and group assessment learning in this topic.
KW - assessment
KW - Feedback
KW - Feedback Fruits
KW - peer
KW - quality
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85200778341&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4995/HEAd24.2024.17288
DO - 10.4995/HEAd24.2024.17288
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85200778341
T3 - International Conference on Higher Education Advances
SP - 26
EP - 34
BT - HEAd 2024 - 10th International Conference on Higher Education Advances
PB - Universidad Politecnica de Valencia.
T2 - 10th International Conference on Higher Education Advances, HEAd 2024
Y2 - 18 June 2024 through 21 June 2024
ER -