The Twofold Value of IT-Based Peer Assessment in Management Information Systems Education

Feedback is one of the most influential factor when it comes to learning success of students. Especially large-scale classes at universities often lack feedback caused by the scarcity of resources. Even though a lack of feedback is problematic across all domains, especially when educating future IS executives, who are supposed to lead team members by providing effective feedback. In this study, we use IT-based peer assessment (ITPA) in a large-scale class to support learners with feedback during the teaching-learning process. The first results show that students increase their learning success and at the same time, train their ability to provide feedback. Specifically, our results suggest that participating in ITPA could lead to an increase in knowledge on the content of the class of about 28% on average. Furthermore, the students’ ability to provide feedback – measured twice, self-reported and as quality of the feedback received – increased significantly during the class

Cross-disciplinary Teaching of both Computer Forensics Students and Law Students Using Peer-Assessment in a Simulated Expert Witness Scenario

This paper describes a novel initiative of the Computing and Information Systems (CIS) Dept in conjunction with the Law Dept at the University of Greenwich. Postgraduate CIS computer forensics students, as part of their assessment, present their findings from a forensics investigation in front of a lecturer and up to five law students in a simulated expert witness testimony scenario. The law students are permitted to ask questions of the computer forensics students and eventually to give their assessment of the student’s witness evidence and presentation. This approach was devised to encompass several pertinent pedagogic issues. Firstly, it is cross-disciplinary, combining as it does, input from two very different departments – an initiative that brings together not only students but also staff who would not otherwise meet. Secondly, it involves the use of practical social/professional skills for both sets of students, as the computer forensics students must present their findings with the skills required of an expert witness in a court setting while the law students must act as cross-examining counsel. Thirdly, this exercise involves the law students assessing the performance of the computer forensics students – an application of peer-assessment that heightens the involvement of both sets of students. Lastly, both sets of students are themselves graded, the computer students by their own forensics lecturer and the law students by their law lecturer, according to their performance in this exercise. The findings from questionnaires sent out to both computer and law students were extremely positive. Both sets felt that they had benefited from the experience and that it would aid their further studies and professional development in their respective areas. It is the opinion of the C-SAFE forensics-law collaborative team that this approach represents an educational innovation in its use of cross-disciplinary problem-solving and peer-assessment in a growing and increasingly significant domain worldwide (cyber forensics)

Implementasi Jaringan Informasi Bersama Antar Sekolah (JIBAS) sebagai Media Humas

Dalam perkembangan zaman, teknologi informasi di dunia bisnis dan pendidikan telah menerapkan berbagai macam media informasi yang dapat membantu kinerja serta pengembangan sumber daya manusia. JIBAS merupakan salah satu sistem informasi manajemen yang digunakan sebagai alat administrasi di sekolah untuk pencapaian tujuan pendidikan yang dapat membantu proses administrasi, pembelajaran, manajemen keuangan, peningkatan hubungan masyarakat anatara guru dan orang tua siswa berbasis komputerisasi. Tujuan dari penulisan artikel ini adalah untuk mengetahui bagaimana proses implementasi JIBAS sebagai media humas di sekolah. Metode yang digunakan yaitu studi literatur penelitian kepustakaan melalui jurnal dengan mengumpulkan data serta referensi-referensi yang terkait dengan topik artikel. Hasil dari pengkajian jurnal dan beberapa referensi yang didapat maka diperoleh bahwa Jibas merupakan sistem informasi manajemen yang dapat digunakan sebagai media humas dalam meningkatkan proses kerja untuk mengelola administrasi dan informasi yang ditujukan kepada warga sekolah dan masyarakat. D­­engan demikian dapat membantu sekolah dalam pengembangan citra sekolah di mata masyarakat dan meningkatkan daya tarik calon peserta didik. &nbsp

Insights into Using IT-Based Peer Feedback to Practice the Students Providing Feedback Skill

The skills students need nowadays have changed over the last decades. The required skills are shifting more and more towards higher order thinking skills, such as critical thinking, collaboration and communication. One of the main ways of practicing these skills is through formative feedback, which consists of self-assessment and peer-assessment in our setting. However, today’s lecturers are facing the challenge that the number of students per lecture is continuously increasing, while the available budget is stagnating. Hence, large scale lectures often lack feedback, caused by the scarcity of resources. To overcome this issue, we propose a teaching-learning scenario using IT to provide formative feedback at scale. In this paper, we are focusing on the students’ providing-feedback skill, which is important for collaborative tasks. In our experiment with around 101 master students, we were able to show that the students’ ability to provide feedback significantly improved by participating in IT-based peer feedback iterations