Sunny San-Ju Lin received the Ph.D. degree in counselling and educational psychology from the University of Southern California,. Los Angeles, in 1995.
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Web-Based Peer Assessment: Does Attitude Influence Achievement? Sunny San-Ju Lin, Eric Zhi-Feng Liu, and Shyan-Ming Yuan
Index Terms—Affective components, NetPeas, two-way anonymous peer assessment, Web-based peer assessment. I. SUMMARY The specific features of the Web-based peer assessment are to utilize Internet resources to facilitate contacts between individuals and information, to assist in brainstorming among individuals, and to generate more meaningful learning at the higher education level. In this research, authors focus predominantly on attitudes of computer science students toward Web-based peer assessment using NetPeas as the interactive channel and management center. NetPeas is a Web-based peer assessment system implemented for two-way anonymous peer assessment. In an evaluation held in 1999 spring, this study recruited a sample of 58 computer science undergraduate students enrolled in an operating systems class in a research university of Taiwan. Attitudes toward Web-based peer assessment were measured by a post test questionnaire, including several affective components, for example, “satisfied” or “unsatisfied” about the Web-based peer assessment. The result demonstrated that 1) significantly more students favored this new learning strategy and 2) students with positive attitude outperformed those with negative attitude. No matter positive attitude toward Web-based peer assessment brings about higher achievement or higher achievement promotes positive attitude, teachers must take care of students’ subjective feelings in enhancing effective Web-based peer assessment.
Sunny San-Ju Lin received the Ph.D. degree in counselling and educational psychology from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, in 1995. She is an Associate Professor in the Center of Teacher Education at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan, where she teaches courses in educational psychology, educational and psychological testing and measurement, learning theories, and individual differences. Her active research interests are in learning through the Internet and Internet addiction.
Eric Zhi-Feng Liu was born on November 11, 1972 in Tainan, Taiwan, R.O.C. He received the B.S. degree from National Chiao Tung University in 1996, the M.S. degree in computer and information science from National Chiao Tung University in 1999, where he is pursuing the Ph.D. degree in computer and information science.
Shyan-Ming Yuan received the B.S.E.E. degree from National Taiwan University in 1981, the M.S. degree in computer science from University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Catonsville, in 1985, and the Ph.D. degree in computer science from University of Maryland, College Park, in 1989. He joined the Electronics Research and Service Organization, Industrial Technology Research Institute as a Research Member in October 1989. Since September 1990, he had been an Associate Professor at the Institute and Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan. He was promoted as a Professor in June 1995.
CD-ROM folder 05. S. S.-J. Lin is with the Center for Teacher Education, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. E. Z.-F. Liu and S.-M. Yuan are with the Department of Computer and Information Science, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C. Publisher Item Identifier S 0018-9359(01)05713-2. 0018–9359/01$10.00 © 2001 IEEE
