Learning analytics should go beyond data analysis and include approaches and algorithms that are meaningful for learner performance and that can be interpreted by teacher and related to learning outcomes. Assessment analytics has been lagging behind other research in learning analytics. This holds true especially for peer-assessment analytics. In this paper we present a mathematical model for p...

Formative assessment is recognized as an important component of teachers’ classroom assessment strategies; recent research has pointed to peer and self-assessment as a way to operationalize the principles of formative assessment. The purpose of this study was to explore the nature and frequency of high school teachers’ use of peer and self-assessment. The results indicate that many teachers fin...

Formative assessment is recognized as an important component of teachers’ classroom assessment strategies; recent research has pointed to peer and self-assessment as a way to operationalize the principles of formative assessment. The purpose of this study was to explore the nature and frequency of high school teachers’ use of peer and self-assessment. The results indicate that many teachers fin...

This paper reports on the assessment procedure of students’ academic essays at an undergraduate course in English for Academic Purposes (EAP) a business-oriented university during school year 2020/21. Following social constructivism paradigm (e.g. Vygotsky, 1962), employed peer (PA) and teacher (TA) was aimed improving their essay writing performance. The further degree correspondence between g...

Introduction: Over the past 30 years, recognizing the need andimportance of training residents in teaching skills has resulted inseveral resident-as-teacher programs. The purpose of this studywas to explore the impact of this teaching initiative and investigatethe improvement in residents’ teaching skills through evaluatingtheir satisfaction and perceived effectiveness as well as assessingmedic...

SocialX is a web application supporting social-collaborative and cooperative aspects of e-learning, such as sharing and reuse of (solutions to) single exercises, and development of projects by group-work and social exchange. Such aspects are supported in the framework of a reputation system, in which learners participate. We describe design and motivational issues of the system, show implementa...

This study was conducted to examine the effect of three types of comments, i.e. imperatives, questions, and statements, with different communicative purposes, i.e. giving information and making a request, given by an ELT teacher and peers on  students’ revision of their writings. Sixty-four female students, between 16 and 26 years old studying at high-intermediate level of English language prof...