Peerwise - Student Generated Assessment Questions

Author

Paul Denny, University of Auckland

Using Peerwise, students develop course-based multiple-choice questions and accompanying explanations to share with other learners. These questions are used by others for studying, critiquing and discussing. Each question is rated for difficulty and quality. The process of answering, evaluating and discussing questions developed by their peers enables students to compare their performance and understanding with that of other students studying the same material.

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In this presentation, Paul Denny provides more information about Peerwise, including research describing its benefits for learners.

For further information about Peerwise, please see below journal articles, or visit http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/ 

• Denny, P., Luxton-Reilly, A., and Hamer, J. (2008). Student use of the PeerWise system. Proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 73-77). New York.
• Denny, P., Luxton-Reilly, A., Hamer, J., and Purchase, H. (2009). Coverage of course topics in a student generated MCQ repository. Proceedings of the 14th Annual ACM SIGCSE Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp. 11-15). New York
• Denny, P., Hanks, B., and Simon, B. (2010). Peerwise: replication study of a student-collaborative self-testing web service in a U.S. setting. Proceedings of the 41st ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education. (pp. 421-425). New York

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