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Kay, Alison E.; Hardy, Judy; Galloway, Ross K. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2018
PeerWise is an online application where students are encouraged to generate a bank of multiple choice questions for their classmates to answer. After answering a question, students can provide feedback to the question author about the quality of the question and the question author can respond to this. Student use of, and attitudes to, this online…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Peer Evaluation, Multiple Choice Tests, Student Developed Materials
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Bates, Simon P.; Galloway, Ross K.; Riise, Jonathan; Homer, Danny – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2014
We present results from a study that categorizes and assesses the quality of questions and explanations authored by students in question repositories produced as part of the summative assessment in introductory physics courses over two academic sessions. Mapping question quality onto the levels in the cognitive domain of Bloom's taxonomy, we find…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Physics, College Science, Introductory Courses
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Hardy, Judy; Bates, Simon P.; Casey, Morag M.; Galloway, Kyle W.; Galloway, Ross K.; Kay, Alison E.; Kirsop, Peter; McQueen, Heather A. – International Journal of Science Education, 2014
The relationship between students' use of PeerWise, an online tool that facilitates peer learning through student-generated content in the form of multiple-choice questions (MCQs), and achievement, as measured by their performance in the end-of-module examinations, was investigated in 5 large early-years science modules (in physics, chemistry and…
Descriptors: Student Developed Materials, Multiple Choice Tests, Performance Based Assessment, Academic Achievement