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    Cardiff University School of Medicine C21 Curriculum Showcase
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    Dr Carmen W. van den Berg, IMEM, CU. vandenbergcw@cardiff.ac.uk Peerwise (http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/) is a free online application which can be used by students as a learning tool. By setting their own questions and phrasing and explaining the answers, and by answering and evaluating their peers’ questions they can test and their knowledge and critical evaluation skills and practise their exam writing skills Peerwise was used in a final year BSc and Intercalated module. Active participation (submitting 4 questions and answering 20 questions by set deadlines) was rewarded with 5% added toward their incourse assessment. The majority of students (23 out of 25) actively participated. However, quality of questions and answers varied. Some excellent questions and answers and explanations were phrased, but some students’ questions were poorly phrased, sometimes resulting in ambiguity, and often lacked an explanation. During the course of the module, students received several reminders about the purpose of Peerwise and how to set phrase questions and answers. Some students (5) seemed to have used it as a tick- boxing exercise and only set and answered the required number of questions. Half the students set 1 or 2 more questions; a third of the students answered over 30 questions with one student answering all questions. A third of the students left feedback. Conclusion: students are tempted to use Peerwise when given a reward, but to make Peerwise useful to all students, students have to be instructed clearly about the purpose of Peerwise and the importance of phrasing questions and answers. The same group of students has elected to use Peerwise again and have received stricter instructions, to which they have to adhere to qualify for the extra marks. The deadline for answering the questions has been set to the end of the week before the examination period start, which hopefully encourages the students to use it for their revision.

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    Dr Carmen W. van den Berg, IMEM, CU. vandenbergcw@cardiff.ac.uk Peerwise (http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/) is a free online application which can be used by students as a learning tool. By setting their own questions and phrasing and explaining the answers, and by answering and evaluating their peers’ questions they can test and their knowledge and critical evaluation skills and practise their exam writing skills Peerwise was used in a final year BSc and Intercalated module. Active participation (submitting 4 questions and answering 20 questions by set deadlines) was rewarded with 5% added toward their incourse assessment. The majority of students (23 out of 25) actively participated. However, quality of questions and answers varied. Some excellent questions and answers and explanations were phrased, but some students’ questions were poorly phrased, sometimes resulting in ambiguity, and often lacked an explanation. During the course of the module, students received several reminders about the purpose of Peerwise and how to set phrase questions and answers. Some students (5) seemed to have used it as a tick- boxing exercise and only set and answered the required number of questions. Half the students set 1 or 2 more questions; a third of the students answered over 30 questions with one student answering all questions. A third of the students left feedback. Conclusion: students are tempted to use Peerwise when given a reward, but to make Peerwise useful to all students, students have to be instructed clearly about the purpose of Peerwise and the importance of phrasing questions and answers. The same group of students has elected to use Peerwise again and have received stricter instructions, to which they have to adhere to qualify for the extra marks. The deadline for answering the questions has been set to the end of the week before the examination period start, which hopefully encourages the students to use it for their revision.

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    Use of Peerwise in The BSC Medical Pharmacology and Intercalated Degree Course

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    Cardiff University School of Medicine C21 Curriculum Showcase
    Dr Carmen W. van den Berg, IMEM, CU. vandenbergcw@cardiff.ac.uk Peerwise (http://peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz/) is a free online application which can be used by students as a learning tool. By setting their own questions and phrasing and explaining the answers, and by answering and evaluating their peers’ questions they can test and their knowledge and critical evaluation skills and practise their exam writing skills Peerwise was used in a final year BSc and Intercalated module. Active participation (submitting 4 questions and answering 20 questions by set deadlines) was rewarded with 5% added toward their incourse assessment. The majority of students (23 out of 25) actively participated. However, quality of questions and answers varied. Some excellent questions and answers and explanations were phrased, but some students’ questions were poorly phrased, sometimes resulting in ambiguity, and often lacked an explanation. During the course of the module, students received several reminders about the purpose of Peerwise and how to set phrase questions and answers. Some students (5) seemed to have used it as a tick- boxing exercise and only set and answered the required number of questions. Half the students set 1 or 2 more questions; a third of the students answered over 30 questions with one student answering all questions. A third of the students left feedback. Conclusion: students are tempted to use Peerwise when given a reward, but to make Peerwise useful to all students, students have to be instructed clearly about the purpose of Peerwise and the importance of phrasing questions and answers. The same group of students has elected to use Peerwise again and have received stricter instructions, to which they have to adhere to qualify for the extra marks. The deadline for answering the questions has been set to the end of the week before the examination period start, which hopefully encourages the students to use it for their revision.

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    Use of PeerWise

    in the BSc Medical Pharmacology and Intercalated degree course


    Dr Carmen W. van den Berg, IMEM, Cardiff University vanden ergc!"cardiff.ac.u#

    PeerWise: su$$orts students in the creation, sharing, evaluation and


    discussion of assessment %uestions &htt$'(($eer!ise.cs.auc#land.ac.n)(* Students !rite their o!n %uestions and ans!ers and are $eer assessed

    Aims of use of PeerWise in BSc & Intercalated module: +to encourage students to revise during the semester +to hel$ student $ractice their e,am !riting s#ills +$rovide the students !ith a revision tool
    Reward vs punishment?

    Student profile:
    Module ME !"# Advanced Immunolo$% + 3inal year BSc Medical Pharmacology students &04* + BSc Intercalated Pathology and Pharmacology students &5*

    -ctive $artici$ation !as re!arded !ith ./ to!ards in course assessment mar#.


    &Increased final module mar# y 0/*

    1o $artici$ation' 1o re!ard 2 no $unishement

    What is PeerWise?

    *http:..peerwise/cs/auc,land/ac/n0.-

    E&ample of a well phrased 'uestion ( answer

    E&ample of poorl% phrased 'uestion and answers

    )o e&planation of answer $iven *+ust a lin, to a research paper-

    Instructions to students
    Instructions to students
    Peerwise is a learning tool that y formulation your o!n %uestions and ans!ers and y ans!ering and evaluating your $eers6 %uestions and ans!ers hel$s you understand the su 7ect area. Partici$ation in this is voluntary ut y $artici$ating y actively !riting %uestions and ans!ering %uestions you can gain e,tra mar#s and it hel$s !ith your revision. #1 will 2e added to %our coursewor, mar, if you actively $artici$ate in $eer!ise y' +formulatin$ at least " 'uestions and answers of your o!n (by 2 set deadlines and on different lectures) A)3 4 answerin$ and evaluatin$ at least 5! 'uestions of your $eers. (one week after the end of term) 1ote' you have to !rite a %uestion first efore you can ans!er %uestions
    NB: students had a supervised practise session on the use of Peerwise in a computer lab in Ty Dewi ant

    6ollow up instructions:
    During the module students !ere reminded several times a out the $ur$ose of Peer!ise and ho! to !rite %uestions and ans!ers' When writin$ the 'uestion and answer: 0. Ma#e sure the %uestion is not am iguous. If you have set an am iguous %uestion, you soon notice it !hen your $eers go for the !rong ans!er. -nd you $ro a ly get loads of comments on it too. 5/ 8ive a clear e&planation of !hy the correct ans!er is correct &you can include lin#s to !here you have found information regarding this*. So don6t 7ust say !hat the ans!er is !ithout e,$laining it. 9. -lso give an e,$lanation !hy the other ans!ers are not correct. :. Phrasing of your ans!ers is very im$ortant, and $oor $hrasing results in not getting the $oints(loosing $oints for e.g. the e,am essays. By $ractising $hrasing your %uestions ; ans!ers $ro$erly in $eer!ise, you are li#ely to im$rove your a ility to !rite e,am essays and increase your mar#s.

    Results
    Participation:
    -ctive $artici$ation' su mitting : %uestions and ans!ering <= %uestions y set deadlines >he ma+orit% of students &<9 out of <.* actively $artici$ated.

    Participation:
    While <9 out of <. students actively too# $art, some students &. out of <9* seemed to have used it as a tic#+ o,ing e,ercise and only set &:* and ans!ered &<=* the re%uired num er of %uestions.

    7ualit% of 'uestions:
    Some e,cellent %uestions and ans!ers and e,$lanations !ere $hrased. Some %uestions !ere $oorly $hrased, sometimes resulting in am iguity, and often lac#ed an e,$lanation. ?alf the students set 0 or < additional %uestions . - third of the students ans!ered over 9= %uestions . @ne student ans!ered all %uestions.

    Reminders:
    During the course of the module, students received several reminders a out the $ur$ose of Peer!Wise and instructions ho! to set $hrase %uestions and ans!ers. >his did im$rove the %uality of the %uestions and ans!ers.

    - third of the students left feed ac#.

    8onclusions:
    Students are tem$ted to use PeerWise !hen given a re!ard. Students re%uire clear instructions a out the $ur$ose of PeerWise and the im$ortance of $hrasing %uestions and ans!ers.

    6ollow up:
    >he same grou$ of students has elected to use PeerWise again for a S$ring module and have received stricter instructionsA adherence to these is re%uired to %ualify for the e,tra mar#s. >he deadline for ans!ering the %uestions has een set to the end of the !ee# efore the e,amination $eriod start, to encourage the students to use it for their revision. >he %uality of the %uestions and ans!ered has increased enormously and many %uestions(ans!ers are of e&am 'ualit%9

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