Students’ use of evaluative judgement in an online peer learning community

One goal of higher education is the development of students’ evaluative judgement, that is, the capacity to make judgements of the quality of work done by oneself and others. Supporting students to critique the work of peers provides opportunities for evaluative judgement, which we explored using an online platform, PeerWise, in a second year genetics course. PeerWise enables students to write, comment on, answer and rate multiple choice...