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Some courses have peer feedback, but I have found it lacking. In the course I'm doing, peers are expected to assess 2 other peers as a minimum, and they do thin
by juanuys 6y ago
Some courses have peer feedback, but I have found it lacking. In the course I'm doing, peers are expected to assess 2 other peers as a minimum, and they do things like this:
- just enter a "." or "-" to get pass the restriction of having to submit _something_
- a peer wouldn't give me full marks for an assignment, but then not leave feedback as to why, usually just a "good job!"
This frustrates me to bits. Coursera could invest in some cleverer technology here, e.g. if it sees a peer deducts points, then if sentiment analysis on the related feedback is only positive, fail validation on the form.
I've ranted a tiny bit about this on one of my course notes blogs:
https://juanuys.com/blog/2020/07/14/introduction-to-game-design.html https://juanuys.com/blog/2020/07/14/introduction-to-game-des...
- geomark 6y agoThis kind of thing drove me away from MOOCs for certain subjects. There was the Human Computer Interface course where your UI was graded by three peers. On multiple assignments I would get a strong positive with comments, a strong negative with comments contradicting the very things the other peer graded positive, and then a "good job". It was utterly useless feedback on things where feedback really was important for learning.