Collaborative Research: Research in Student Peer Review: A Cooperative Web-Services Approach

成千上万的学生使用在线同行评议应用程序来评阅他们同学的作业。虽然从同行评议中获得的学习成果已经被反复记录下来，但目前的系统并不总是产生准确的分数，而且往往没有给学生足够的指导，告诉他们什么是好的评议，导致反馈杂乱无章。这项研究用一套通用的网络服务解决了这些问题，这些服务可以被任何同行评议系统使用，还使用了新的可视化工具来识别学生的长处和短处，并衡量随着时间的推移而取得的进步。该项目不同于以往的研究，后者通常涉及单一的同行评审系统。它将开发一套可供任何同行评审系统使用的网络服务，就像谷歌地图可供任何想要显示位置数据的网站使用一样。这种共同的实施将允许项目团队从大量学生中收集各种各样的数据，从而使我们的统计能力产生更有说服力的，高度概括的结果。写作过程中的speer审查是形成性评估的一个例子，当接受者仍然有机会改进他/她的工作时，收到反馈。几项研究发现，从形成性评估中获益最多的学生是那些在考试和标准化测试中表现不佳的学生。形成性评估倾向于为未被充分代表的少数民族创造公平的竞争环境，允许这些学生在不担心自己的成绩受到影响的情况下从同龄人那里得到反馈。

Hundreds of thousands of students have used online peer review applications to review their classmates' work. While learning gains from peer review have been documented repeatedly, current systems do not always produce accurate scores and often give inadequate guidance to students about what constitutes a good review, resulting in haphazard feedback. This research addresses these issues with a common set of web services that can be used by any peer review system, as well as new visualizations that identify students' strengths and weaknesses, and gauge improvement over time.This project differs from previous research that typically involves a single peer review system. It will develop a set of web services that will be usable by any peer review system in the same way that Google Maps is available to any website that wants to display location data. This common implementation will allow the project team to gather data from large numbers of students in a wide variety of contexts, thereby giving us the statistical power to produce more convincing, highly generalizable resultsPeer review during the writing process is an example of formative assessment, feedback that is received while the recipient still has a chance to improve his/her work. Several studies have found that the students who benefit most from formative assessment are those who typically underperform as measured by exams and standardized tests. Formative assessment tends to level the playing field for underrepresented minorities by allowing these students to receive input from their peers when they are not stressed about how their grade is being affected.