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Tag: Thurstone
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Getting students to mark each others’ work has two huge advantage – it is brilliantly formative and it saves you a ton of time. But how accurate is it? And how do you validate that it really is helping students learn? Structured Peer Assessment (SPA) is our patented system to deliver accurate, demonstrably-formative peer assessment. Here…
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This guest post is by Adam Williams, Teacher of IT and Computer Science, City of Norwich School an Ormiston Academy. I have trialled Structured Peer Assessment exercises over the last few weeks with my classes. When I first saw it pop up as a new way of getting structured written work out of students I…
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Imagine asking one of your classes a deep, but deceptively-simple, question. Have them judge each others’ answers anonymously, give their reasons for the judgements, then assess the reasons as well. At the end of the process you get a mark. Automatically. No exercise books, no late-night marking sessions. Just high-quality formative assessment. Empowered, gamified, peer-supported…
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And here it is. Patents are written in a language that is absolutely mind-numbing to the rest of us so I’ll forgive you for not reading it. Basically what it covers is our Thurstone Ranking approach to peer assessment system, which is absolutely unique in the world. We applied for this patent four years ago so it has been…
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Starting from Monday, we are introducing a new level of challenge into our quizzes. We shall be asking students to write formative feedback statements for each other. This is strictly experimental, and I have my finger on a button to switch it off instantly if it is not working. Here is what your students will…
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