Evaluation of marking of peer marking in oral presentation.

BACKGROUND: Peer marking is an important skill for students, helping them to understand the process of learning and assessment. This method is increasingly used in medical education, particularly in formative assessment. However, the use of peer marking in summative assessment is not widely adopted because many teachers are concerned about biased marking by students of their peers. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to investigate whether marking of summative peer assessment can improve the reliability of peer marking. METHODS: In a retrospective analysis, the peer-marking results of a summative assessment of oral presentations of two cohorts of students were compared. One group of students was told that their peer marks would be assessed against a benchmark consisting of the average of examiner marks and that these scores together with the peer and examiner marks would form their final exam results. The other group of students were just informed that their final exam results would be determined based on the examiner and peer marks. RESULTS: Based on examiner marks, both groups of students performed similarly in their summative assessment, agreement between student markers was less consistent and more polar than the examiners. When compared with the examiners, students who were told that their peer marking would be scored were more generous markers (their average peer mark was 2.4 % points higher than the average examiner mark) while students who were not being scored on their marking were rather harsh markers (their average peer mark was 4.2 % points lower than the average examiner mark), with scoring of the top-performing students most affected. CONCLUSIONS: Marking of peer marking had a small effect on the marking conduct of students in summative assessment of oral presentation but possibly indicated a more balanced marking performance

Developing profiling as part of the assessment structure in initial teacher education at Wolverhampton

Paper presented at the University's Educational Research Conference held in the Algarve (Portugal) 23-28 Oct 1993SIGLEGBUnited Kingdo

Single-step, spin-on process for high fidelity and selective deposition

Processes that enable selective deposition in thin films are desired for advanced patterning applications to reduce overlay demands, but conventional techniques are slow and limited in material scope. Here, we report a method that selectively deposits polymeric coatings on heterogeneous substrates (Cu/SiO2) using spin coating. Unlike traditional approaches that rely on surface pretreatments, herein, selectivity is induced by polymer design that promotes preferential dewetting from one substrate material and uniform wetting on the other. As evidenced by studies with homogeneous surfaces, poly(acrylates) containing semifluorinated pendant groups satisfy this criterion and spontaneously dewet from SiO2 but form continuous films on Cu. When spin coated onto Cu/SiO2 line–space patterns, these semifluorinated polymers selectively coat only the Cu lines without any pre- or postprocessing. Rational design rules have been elucidated that anticipate regimes of selective deposition by correlating the droplet size of dewetted features on homogeneous SiO2 with the dimensions of heterogeneous Cu/SiO2 patterns. The universality of this unique strategy is demonstrated across a library of polymers with varying molecular weights and monomer structures, providing significant advances arising from the simplicity and rapidity of spin coating. For 10–40 μm full pitch features, the entire deposition procedure involves a single step and is complete in under 1 min