The purpose of the present study was to describe the peer assessment experience from the viewpoint of the students themselves in a post-secondary educational institution which organizes its curriculum according to principles of problem-based learning. Here, assessing peers’ learning within the team is a continuous (i.e., daily) activity. To that end, a questionnaire containing statements inquir...

This paper presents two interventions to improve the peer learning practice in an Information System course; namely (1) class-based peer tutoring in small groups and (2) discussions on Facebook group of the course. The article aims at comparing the correlations between the learning outcomes with class-based peer tutoring as well as with Facebook engagement. The findings show that although the l...

This study describes an effective web-based learning strategy, peer review, used by 143 computer science undergraduate students in an Operating Systems class at a Taiwanese university. Peer review, based on social constructivism, can be easily implemented via the authors’ well-developed web-based peer review (WPR) system. Through peer review, the authors hope to form an authentic learning envir...

In group activities, students work collaboratively to accomplish specific objectives. Students have engage and interact with each other in order complete collaborative assignments. One way that stay engaged is through asking questions. the research reported here, we looked at peer-to-peer questions context of a activity. Specifically, examined frequency questions, types responses elicited by st...

This paper reports the results of studying the use of peer learning in the introductory computer science curriculum. The project involves educators from a variety of institutions who participated in two summer workshops and either introduced or continued their use of peer learning at their institutions as part of this project. The results of the collective work include much experience with diie...