PAWS Meeting 2008-9-9

Topic: Peer Review
Speaker: Sharon
1) PeerWise

• multiple-choice question
• Auckland, UBC
• Large class
• Be able to rate difficulty each question: 0 - 5
  
• Be able to identify question into category
• Active use of the system may contribute to deep learning

2) Open community authoring of targeted worked example problems

• A prototype tutor authoring system using community volunteers to create personalized solution
• Four phase: Generation, Evaluation, Use, and Improvement
• Elementary Math Domain
• Question quality: Math teacher > Amateur > Other teacher
  
• Solution quality: Amateur > Math teacher > Other teacher
  
• Educational content system can benefit from open contribution