The Study of Peer Assessment Impact on Group Learning Activities

TL;DR

This study investigates the impact of peer assessment on group learning activities, highlighting student preferences, benefits, and challenges, and proposing strategies to improve the peer assessment process using social media tools.

Contribution

It provides a systematic review of peer assessment effects on group learning and offers practical suggestions to enhance its effectiveness and student engagement.

Findings

37% students prefer individual work over group work

82.1% students enjoyed using Facebook for group communication

89.3% students demonstrated skills through group work

Abstract

Comparing with lecturer marked assessments, peer assessment is a more comprehensive learning process and many of the associated problems have occurred. In this research work, we study the peer-assessment impact on group learning activities in order to provide a complete and systematic review, increase the practice and quality of the peer assessment process. Pilot studies were conducted and took the form of surveys, focus group interviews, and questionnaires. Prelimi-nary surveys were conducted with 582 students and 276 responses were received, giving a response rate of 47.4%. The results show 37% student will choose individual work over group work if given the choice. In the case study, 82.1% of the total of 28 students have en-joyed working in a group using Facebook as communication tools. 89.3% of the students can demonstrate their skills through group-working and most importantly, 82.1% of them agree that peer assess-ment is an impartial method of assessment with the help of Facebook as proof of self-contribution. Our suggestions to make group work a pleasant experience are by identifying and taking action against the freeloader, giving credit to the deserving students, educating students on how to give constructive feedback and making the assessment pro-cess transparent to all.