New assessment process in an introductory undergraduate physics laboratory
An exploration on collaborative learning
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19379456 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anthony C K Leung (0000-0001-6243-884X, ,), Banafsheh Hashemi Pour (,), Dan Reynolds (0000-0002-8403-2856, ,), Stanislaw Jerzak (,) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 169-181 |
| Publication date | 2017-02-17 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0260-2938 • E-ISSN: 1469-297X |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/02602938.2015.1089977 |
| OpenAlex | W1904991648 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 19 |
A new team learning assessment process was designed and tested in a first-year university physics laboratory class. The assessment process was designed to provide a strong incentive for students to cooperate and feel responsible for each other’s learning and fostering a sense of collaboration rather than competition. Specifically, the new assessment process involves randomly dividing students into teams of four to work on a physics experiment and, at the end of the laboratory session, randomly selecting only one team member to carry out a post-laboratory session performance task. The results indicate that learning outcomes were not compromised in the new assessment process and that peer instruction was employed to a greater extent compared to our standard process. Student responses from a post-assessment survey revealed that 76% of students considered our new assessment process to be fair, whereas 57% of students felt our standard process was fair. The new assessment process used in this study led to a 75% reduction in grading duties – an advantage for large class management
Higher education · Incentive · Mathematics education · Medical education · Peer Assessment · Peer evaluation · Computer Science · Engineering · Experimental Learning in Engineering · Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods · Innovative Teaching Methods · Psychology
| Highly cited | No |
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