Timeline for How to improve student seminar presentations and seminar papers
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| Apr 7, 2018 at 19:05 | history | bounty ended | Massimo Ortolano | ||
| Apr 5, 2018 at 22:21 | comment | added | OBu | We are using a nice trick: The review is part of the final grade. The grade depends on the quality and appropriateness of the review. This means, if they are way too positive, they will get a worse grade for their review. And I do not take the reviews into account when I'm, finally going through the submissions. So honesty pays of a) because they will get a better grade and b) their friends can improve their paper. | |
| Apr 5, 2018 at 9:42 | comment | added | diplo | That sounds interesting. Based on my experience, whenever students have to give feedback to presentations, they tend to praise themselves (i.e. they defend themselves against the enemy aka the grader :-)). Hence, I would suggest not to grade the feedback itself. However, how can useful feedback be encouraged if there is no 'pressure'? Ideally students should give great feedback because because they need helpful comments on their slides and papers, too. On the other hand there are many reasons not to put too much effort into other students' papers instead of theirs. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 19:18 | comment | added | OBu | Quite well! Many students are criticizing things they did wrong by themselves and sometimes even learn from this 😉. For me it's a great help as well since I enforce plagiarism check in this step (without consequences for the authors at this stage). The feedback is quite helpful in general. | |
| Apr 4, 2018 at 19:13 | comment | added | diplo | Thanks for the answer. How does the peer review work out? This is an idea that we discussed internally, but we are not sure whether there is a constructive outcome. Do students see their peers' papers and think "Wow, this is so much better than mine. I will improve my own paper!" or are they not able to see that because if they could their own papers were better? | |
| Apr 1, 2018 at 19:09 | history | edited | Massimo Ortolano | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Apr 1, 2018 at 18:53 | history | answered | OBu | CC BY-SA 3.0 |