Peer Assessment Based
on Ratings in a Social
Media Course
Andrii Vozniuk, Adrian Holzer, Denis Gillet
Andrii Vozniuk, Adrian Holzer, Denis Gillet. “Peer Assessment Based on Ratings in a
Social Media Course”. In the proceedings of LAK’14.
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Is peer
assessment
reliable
?
Practice what you preach
social evaluation
in a
social media course !
using a
social media app
Social Media Course
age 23-28
60students
Mining the
social web
Assignment
Goal
Extract relevant
information for the class
from a social network in
the context of the Long
Tail and plot the result
#followers
Ranked users
Individual work
2pages
Examples
Grading
Your grade is strongly influenced by the
grade from your peers, but might differ
5 - I love it, it’s amazing
4 - I like the report
3 - It’s OK
2 - I don’t like it
1 - I hate the report
as in social media
Criteria
1 - Is the report about a social media?
3 - Is the dataset representative?
4 - Is it technically advanced?
5 - Is the report well written?
2 - Is the long tail hypothesis clear?
6 - Is it interesting and creative?
Graasp
create a space,
drop resources & apps,
invite people to collaborate
Reviewers
60reports each
3 instructors
20reports each
60 students
40 kids
15 reports each
11 years old
Statistics
Consensus Group mean
Agreement Cohen’s weighted Kappa
Results
Instructors vs Kids
Kids vs Students
Instructors vs Students
Agreement
Weighted
Kappa
Lower Bound
(95%)
Upper Bound
(95%)
Sig Level
0.196 -0.59 0.427 0.065
Agreement
Weighted
Kappa
Lower Bound
(95%)
Upper Bound
(95%)
Sig Level
0.285 0.035 0.501 0.013
Agreement
Weighted
Kappa
Lower Bound
(95%)
Upper Bound
(95%)
Sig Level
0.774 0.648 0.858 0.00001
Conclusion
Peer assessment seems
quite reliable
Based not only on
appearance
Working on the full
integration in Graasp
Thanks!

Peer assessment in a Social Media course