Peer review system to enhance critiquing ability of students in

systems analysis courses

(TDG Project # 6000133)

Narsi BollojuDepartment of Information Systems

City University of Hong Kong

TDG Sharing on June 24, 2009

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

Background ...

• Teaching systems analysis related skills

• Learning requires practice and feedback

• Difficulties in providing “quality feedback”

• Learning these skills through peer review – opportunity with challenges

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

Background ...

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

Peer Review Support System

• for enhancing the critiquing ability of students of systems analysis courses

• provides different set of functionality for instructors and students

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

Practice ...

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

Review ...

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

Instructors can ...• define and manage document types

with common problems identified & categorized

• add documents as instances of document types for practicing review

• setup assessment tasks (submission of work, assign students for peer review)

• understanding specific areas learning difficulties

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

Students can ...

• understand common mistakes or errors through examples

• practice partial or guided reviews (learn peer review skill)

• peer review material assigned to them (learn through peer review)

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju

To use the system…• Guest Access

• http://144.214.55.151:8080/peerreview

• Username: tdguest Password: tdreview

• Account creation & support

• Ken Lee (email: iswklee@cityu.edu.hk)

TDG Project No. 6000133 PI: Dr Narsimha Bolloju