In this study, the researcher used the many-facet Rasch measurement model (MFRM) to detect two pervasive rater errors among peer-assessors rating EFL essays. The researcher also compared the ratings of peer-assessors to those of teacher assessors to gain a clearer understanding of the ratings of peer-assessors. To that end, the researcher used a fully crossed design in which all peer-assessors ...

the objective of the present paper is to shed some light on peer feedback in efl writing courses. in recent years, with regard to teaching writing, there has been a total shift of approach, from product-orientation to process-orientation. a key component of the latter is peer assessment in which learners read each other's compositions and provide feedback to the writer, based on the teache...

Alternative assessment approaches and, among them, self-assessment and peer-assessment are becoming increasingly important in educational contexts. Designed to compare self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment, this study included 90 EFL students from 3 intact classes divided into 3 groups: self-assessment, peer-assessment, and teacher-assessment. After taking the TOEFL Proficien...

Various peer-scaffoldings in problem-solving have been studied as effective learning strategies in web based instruction and on line ‐ ‐ discussion. The web-based environment provides a medium for sharing knowledge and resources, which help learners engage in problem-solving and interactive learning. Learners, however, easily feel isolated in web-based environments because of the tremendous amo...

The study proposes an approach to support students' debugging exercise named scaffolding online peer assessment built upon the scaffolding theory. The scaffolding mechanism in this approach includes two aspects. One is that the system provides error tips to aid students in finding errors in their assignments. The other mechanism is the peer’s comment itself which is viewed as a kind of scaffold...