At the final session any further problems were discussed and arrangements for collecting completed assessments was agreed. This exercise was not entirely successful for a number of reasons given below. However, our experience with this group leads us to think that a revised scheme could work well. Students identified things as wrong which were not and also missed things. This could be used in a diagnostic way if the exercise had been used two-thirds of the way through the semester.
More attention needs to be focused on how to equate criteria to the university mark scheme.
Despite the careful work on assessment criteria, there were still a significant number of substantial differences between tutor and student marks. Some students commented that they dislike assessing other members of their own group, even though the process is anonymous and tutor moderated. The actual exercises were perhaps a little daunting. Students perhaps need some guidance on how to work in groups and suggestions as to how to divide the work between them. Each pair takes two exercises and goes through them in detail.