Recently, more and more researchers have been exploring uses of mobile technology that support new instructional strategies. Based on research findings related to peer and self assessment, this study developed a Mobile Assessment Participation System (MAPS) using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) as the platform. In addition, the study proposes an implementation model of the MAPS that should facilitate the effectiveness of self- and peer-assessment in classrooms. The researcher argues that teachers and students can benefit from MAPS in various regards including more flexible assessment arrangement, more efficient use of time, and more opportunities for student reflection on learning and assessment. Thirty-seven students taking teacher-education courses with the researcher participated in this study, and these students employed the MAPS to conduct two-round assessment activities that would help these students assess both their own and one another's final projects. Both the students' valid responses in a survey herein and scores obtained from the assessment activities confirmed the benefits of the MAPS and its implementation model. Yet, the students voiced such concerns as the objectivity of peer-assessment and the difficulty of providing constructive feedback, and the correlation analysis indicated a lack of consistency between teacher-grading and student-grading.
(private-note)This article describes a web-based self- and peer-assessment system and its implementation model. Focusing on how to appropriately integrate mobile technology with assessment, this study strives to tackle issues and concerns with self- and peer-assessment, which have been documented in relevant research (e.g., Ballantyne et al., 2002, Lin et al., 2001, Miller, 2003, Topping et al., 2000 and Tsai et al., 2002). Combining mobile technology with the concept of round-table presentations, the MAPS and its implementation model are to help the teacher arrange self- and peer-assessment more flexibly and to make students more attentive to presentation, interaction, and feedback in the assessment process. Along the whole assessment cycle, students self-evaluate and self-monitor their own learning and performance according to explicit assessment criteria. Furthermore, this approach serves to improve students' work and students' understanding insofar as students, by assessing a peer and by providing him or her feedback, reflect on the strengths and the weaknesses of their own performance as well as of other students' performances.
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%A Chen, Chao-hsiu
%D 2010
%J Computers & Education
%K assessment, classroom-activities, era-a-journal, mobile
%N 1
%P 229--236
%R 10.1016/j.compedu.2010.01.008
%T The implementation and evaluation of a mobile self- and peer-assessment system
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compedu.2010.01.008
%V 55
%X Recently, more and more researchers have been exploring uses of mobile technology that support new instructional strategies. Based on research findings related to peer and self assessment, this study developed a Mobile Assessment Participation System (MAPS) using Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) as the platform. In addition, the study proposes an implementation model of the MAPS that should facilitate the effectiveness of self- and peer-assessment in classrooms. The researcher argues that teachers and students can benefit from MAPS in various regards including more flexible assessment arrangement, more efficient use of time, and more opportunities for student reflection on learning and assessment. Thirty-seven students taking teacher-education courses with the researcher participated in this study, and these students employed the MAPS to conduct two-round assessment activities that would help these students assess both their own and one another's final projects. Both the students' valid responses in a survey herein and scores obtained from the assessment activities confirmed the benefits of the MAPS and its implementation model. Yet, the students voiced such concerns as the objectivity of peer-assessment and the difficulty of providing constructive feedback, and the correlation analysis indicated a lack of consistency between teacher-grading and student-grading.
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comment = {(private-note)This article describes a web-based self- and peer-assessment system and its implementation model. Focusing on how to appropriately integrate mobile technology with assessment, this study strives to tackle issues and concerns with self- and peer-assessment, which have been documented in relevant research (e.g., [Ballantyne et al., 2002], [Lin et al., 2001], [Miller, 2003], [Topping et al., 2000] and [Tsai et al., 2002]). Combining mobile technology with the concept of round-table presentations, the MAPS and its implementation model are to help the teacher arrange self- and peer-assessment more flexibly and to make students more attentive to presentation, interaction, and feedback in the assessment process. Along the whole assessment cycle, students self-evaluate and self-monitor their own learning and performance according to explicit assessment criteria. Furthermore, this approach serves to improve students' work and students' understanding insofar as students, by assessing a peer and by providing him or her feedback, reflect on the strengths and the weaknesses of their own performance as well as of other students' performances.},
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title = {{The implementation and evaluation of a mobile self- and peer-assessment system}},
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