Graduate Students' Perceptions of Peer Assessment Feedback in Enhancing Research Skills and Productivity

• In Event: Evaluating Student Success: Prior Learning, Peer Feedback, AI, and Self-Control in Education

Abstract

Peer feedback is an evaluative approach that, if used effectively, can enhance the overall experience of graduate students as consumers and producers of research. Methods of assessing students' academic growth at the graduate level are not well-researched compared to the undergraduate level. Graduate students are expected to be more involved in advanced critical thinking, exercise analytical analysis, and develop expertise in evaluative processes. The current study focuses on understanding perspectives of the usage and impact of peer assessment in developing research abilities and productivity in a graduate research class. We used quantitative descriptive correlational research design to address the research questions. The findings demonstrated positive correlation between students' research output and their opinions of the Peer Feedback Assessment (PFA) design.

Authors

• Kennedy W. Awuonda, Texas Tech University

• Sharon Atieno, Texas Tech University

• Amani Zaier, Texas Tech University