How to Fail with Collaborative Learning: Advancing the Progress of Teamwork Across the Curriculum
Channel: Peer Assess Pro
Date: 28/11/2023

This video summarises educators' critical challenges in implementing collaborative learning and teammate peer assessment in academic settings. The presentation demonstrates how these issues contribute to suboptimal outcomes for teachers and students by reflecting on five potential malpractices. As a solution, the paper introduces Teamwork Across the Curriculum (TAC), a comprehensive framework inspired by the Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC) movement. Teamwork Across the Curriculum seeks to integrate research, academic policies, and technological advancements to enhance the quality of collaborative learning activities and peer assessment processes. Emphasis is placed on the role of educational technology as a pivotal element in the successful implementation of TAC. The study argues that a well-designed technology platform can significantly improve the efficacy and fairness of peer feedback and assessment whilst underpinning the successful adoption of the TAC pathway. TAC presents a promising trajectory for advancing collaborative learning and peer assessment pedagogies to produce highly employable, future-ready graduates.

The video summarises a full paper presented in the conference proceedings for Peer Review, Peer Assessment, and Self Assessment in Education (PRASAE 2023), University of Technology Sydney, 2023-11-26

Mellalieu, P. J., & Dodd, P. (2023 (forthcoming)). How to Fail with Collaborative Learning and Teammate Peer Assessment: Advancing the Progress of Teamwork Across the Curriculum (TAC). Emerging Technologies for Education, Springer Nature Computer Science.