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Volume Two - Academic Conferences

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Category<br />

Amanda Sykes et al.<br />

Q9 : What do you believe is the biggest problem with<br />

PeerWise?<br />

Comments<br />

Incorrect questions<br />

No question moderation<br />

Non representative questions<br />

Lack of peer effort<br />

Repetion of questions<br />

Ratings<br />

Nothing wrong<br />

Grading process<br />

Timing of deadlines<br />

Too many questions<br />

Hard to write a good question<br />

Low efficiency<br />

Doesn’t cover entire curriculum<br />

Not able to repeat answering questions<br />

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20<br />

Frequency<br />

Figure 9: Responses to question 9 from the SurveyMonkey survey<br />

Category<br />

Q10 : Can you recommend something that would make<br />

PeerWise more valuable or effective for learning in veterinary<br />

medicine?<br />

M oderation<br />

Use in more courses<br />

Alter assessment strategy<br />

Specimen questions by staff<br />

Remove bad questions<br />

Update interface<br />

Ability to re-answer questions<br />

Quality grading<br />

De-anonymise<br />

Poll after each question<br />

Ensure even topic distribution<br />

Stop rating questions<br />

No<br />

0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16<br />

Frequency<br />

Figure 10: Responses to question 10 from the SurveyMonkey survey<br />

4. Discussion<br />

This first report of PeerWise use with students of Veterinary Medicine manifested many positive<br />

outcomes:<br />

Student compliance with the deadlines required to be met for the continual assessment mark was<br />

high with 100% of students meeting a minimum of five deadlines and 90% meeting all eight,<br />

despite only 5% being allocated to their final professional exam mark.<br />

Student engagement with PeerWise was high: over half the class authored more questions than<br />

the minimum although most did not author significantly more than required (consistent with<br />

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