Ranga Venkatachary, Program Director, Centre for Online and Distance Education, Simon Fraser University Festival of Learning in Burnaby, B.C. - June 6-9, 2016

1. FetiRRvPl of PP2016
Peer Evaluation as a Learning & Assessment Strategy
Enhancing Student Engagement in Online Project Groups
Ranga Venkatachary
Program Director, Centre for Online & Distance Education
BC FESTIVAL OF LEARNING
June 6-9, 2016

2. Acknowledgement
•Thomas Brown, Director, GDBA & Part Time MBA, Beedie School
of Business, Simon Fraser University
•Jim Sibley, Director, Centre for Instructional Support, Faculty of
Applied Science, University of British Columbia
•Peter Kou, Instructional Technician, Centre for Online and
Distance Education, Simon Fraser University

3. Business Teaching Ethos & Student
Engagement

5. Case Study Frame – Two Questions
• How does peer evaluation strategy bridge
learning and assessment in an online learning
environment?
• What is the influence of disciplinary drivers in
using peer evaluation?
• Strategically formed,
permanent teams
• Readiness assurance
• Application activities that
promote both critical thinking
and team development
• Peer evaluation
Team
based
learning

6. "The essence of professional decision
making is moving from complexity
and ambiguity to action.”– excerpt from
course blurb – Business Ethics (2)

7. Intentional Learning Environment –
Assessment Strategy Layers
Peer Evaluation **
Structured Reading
– individual
Weekly Ethical Scenarios
– individual (problem solving)
Weekly Reflection Journal
– individual
Weekly Video Analysis & Synthesis
– Group ** (problem solving)
Final Essay – individual
(problem solving & argumentation)
5%
10%
10%
15%
20%
40%

8. Groups
1. Moral
Foundations
Questionnaire
www.yourmorals.
org/
2. Survey
3. Permanent teams

9. Accountability
• Preparation
• Contribution
• Collaboration
scores
comments

10. Fine grained data!
integer
parameters
for text field

11. Feedback
• Instructor’s report includes flags:
• Each student receives an anonymized summary of qualitative
comments from group members
• Instructor receives a compiled report for whole class
No
comments
< 50 characters

12. Peer evaluation Assignment Design
TEAM A Total Peer Score Highest Team
Peer Score
Instructor’s Team
Average Grade
Individual Grade
Student 1
Student 1
1: 14.50
2: 14.75
3: 15.00
4: 13.20
15.005: 14.50
6: 14.50
x 7.50 7.25
IG = TPS ÷ HTPS x TAG
14.50 ÷ =
1 2 3 4 65 11 3

13. Application Activity Question 1
Recall some of your own teaching and learning
experiences.
•Consider the number of errors you made while you
were learning.
• How did those errors contribute to your learning?
• Is it possible to contemplate a learning experience
that kept a person from making errors?
• In your view, would that kind of instruction be a
good thing? Why/why not?

14. Application Activity Question 2
Have you ever had an experience in working with a
group of people where the excitement of solving a
problem made the learning experience great? Or
memorable?
•What creates such excitement in learning groups?
•What was it that you learned? How would you
describe it?
•Would you design that kind of learning experience for
others?
•How might you do that?