The main interest in this article is the students’ involvement in assessment as a part of growth towards self-directedness in learning. In order to enhance students’ development of autonomy in learning, a project involving “older” students as peer examiners for “younger” students was designed and carried out. Students in the 6th semester in a PBL-based Masters program of Medical biology partici...

Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are changing the contours of the teaching and learning landscape. Assessment covers an important part of this landscape and may be a key driver for learning. This paper presents preliminary results of a qualitative study that investigated learners’ views on assessment types within a MOOC. A thematic analysis of thirteen observations from online interactions i...

I n their Science & Society article ‘Scientometrics in a changing research landscape’ [1] Lutz Bornmann and Loet Leydesdorff state that ‘the new UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) puts more emphasis on bibliometric data and less on peer review than did its predecessor’. Having overseen the UK Research Excellence Framework 2014 (http:// www.ref.ac.uk/) for the life sciences as Main Panel A (...

Peer feedback content is a core component of peer assessment, but the impact of various contents of feedback is hardly studied. Participants in the study were 89 graduate students who were assigned to four experimental and a control group. Experimental groups received a scenario with Concise General (CGF) or Elaborated Specific (ESF) feedback by a high or low competent peer. ESF by a high compe...

This study investigated the accuracy of scores assigned by self-, peer-, and teacher assessors over time. Thirty-three English majors who were taking paragraph development course at Vali-e-Asr University of Rafsanjan and two instructors who had been teaching essay writing for at least two years at university, participated in the study. After receiving instructions on paragraph development, part...

AIMS To provide an overview of the peer review process, its various types, selection of peer reviewers, the purpose and significance of the peer review with regard to the assessment and management of quality of publications in academic journals. DESIGN Discussion paper. METHODS This paper draws on information gained from literature on the peer review process and the authors' knowledge and e...