An application of peer assessment in higher education

Sahin S.

TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY, cilt.7, sa.2, ss.5-10, 2008 (SSCI) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 7 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2008
  • Dergi Adı: TURKISH ONLINE JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus, ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), MLA - Modern Language Association Database, Psycinfo
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.5-10
  • Anahtar Kelimeler: higher education, peer evaluation, validity
  • Gazi Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

The purpose of this study is to practice peer evaluation and to determine if the result of the evaluation shows similarity with the lecturer evaluation, thus to make assumption about the validity of peer evaluation in higher education. For this purpose, students of "Specific Teaching Methods I" class, which is included in the 3. Class of Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies Teaching, Gazi Faculty of Education, Gazi University, evaluated peers for their term project. In order to determine the similarity between peer and lecturer evaluation, the correlation between scores of lecturer and scores gained by peer evaluation is calculated. The result of the study revealed that peer evaluation showed similarity with lecturer evaluation.