{"id":155,"date":"2012-06-05T00:42:47","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T04:42:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/acts\/?p=155"},"modified":"2012-06-05T00:42:47","modified_gmt":"2012-06-05T04:42:47","slug":"peer-review-peer-grading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/acts\/2012\/06\/05\/peer-review-peer-grading\/","title":{"rendered":"Peer Review, Peer Grading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With all the talk of MOOCs (edX \/ Coursera), I&#8217;ve been very interested in finding more information on peer review.  So I&#8217;ve been reading the studies that espouse the benefits of peer review in general.  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dukechronicle.com\/article\/peer-grading-experiment-success-professor-says\">Duke Chronicle: Peer grading experiment a success, professor says<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/scholar.google.com\/scholar?q=peer+grading+study&amp;btnG=&amp;hl=en&amp;as_sdt=0%2C22&amp;as_vis=1\">Mostly older articles via google<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And the pitfalls:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/educationgroup.mit.edu\/HHMIEducationGroup\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Freeman-et-al-2010.pdf\">How accurate is peer grading?<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A couple years ago I was put in charge of working with <a href=\"http:\/\/cpr.molsci.ucla.edu\/\">UCLA&#8217;s Calibrated Peer Review<\/a> for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Eric_Mazur\">Eric Mazur<\/a>.  He was really excited about it &#8212; I was less so.  But my problem was I was looking at the application, not the concept.  Just because an application is overdeveloped drivel doesn&#8217;t mean what they were trying to do isn&#8217;t awesome.  I&#8217;m of the thinking they should have simplified it.  That seems to be the case with just about everything I see.  Applications shouldn&#8217;t be as complicated as they&#8217;re made.  The problem is there are usually too many people involved in a project&#8217;s inception and everyone needs to put a piece of themselves into it.  But I digress.  edX will be great.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think Mazur used the CPR for more than 2 semesters.  Probably because there was too much overhead and it wasn&#8217;t intuitive enough.  But a poor implementation doesn&#8217;t mean a poor idea.<\/p>\n<p>Or at least that&#8217;s my theory on this.  I hadn&#8217;t seen any progress with online implementations of this, people haven&#8217;t been pushing this teaching technique yet and it&#8217;s disappointing (or telling).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hackeducation.com\/2012\/04\/18\/coursera\/\">Coursera is making a run at it now.<\/a>  That is encouraging.  That means edX will probably follow suit with a similar implementation.  And I&#8217;m planning a mild implementation with <a href=\"http:\/\/github.com\/jazahn\/Quizmo\">Quizmo<\/a>.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With all the talk of MOOCs (edX \/ Coursera), I&#8217;ve been very interested in finding more information on peer review. So I&#8217;ve been reading the studies that espouse the benefits of peer review in general. 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