Development of an Online Peer Assessment System in Teamwork Skills—A Preliminary Survey

Abstract

In the learning process, teamwork is often a crucial part where students learn to work together using their individual skills despite any personal conflict. Students often enjoy learning in teams and developing teamwork skills, but criticize team assessment as unfair if there is equal reward for unequal contribution. In order to evaluate these teamwork skills, a peer assessment often used to measure the performance each of the team members. Peer assessment can be defined as the responsibility of assessing work of peers against various set of assessment criteria. It is one of the powerful tools for the students to have better understanding on assessment criteria and also transfer certain percentage of ownership of the assessment process and marks to them that subsequently will help increasing their self-motivation and teamwork skills. Group assignment is one type of assessments that is widely used by the lecturers in UiTM (Perak) especially in the Faculty of Architecture, Planning and Surveying (FSPU). However, no study has been conducted to measure the level of awareness among the lecturers. Thus, this research seeks to identify the level of awareness of peer assessment among the lecturers in UiTM (Perak). In addition, this research will determine the most preferable medium for peer assessment by the students. To achieve the objectives of this research, data collection through survey analysis method were used. Set of 50 questionnaires was distributed to the lecturers in UiTM (Perak). Data from the questionnaire survey was analyzed quantitatively using descriptive statistics involving frequency and percentage distribution using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). The finding from this research clearly shows that most of the respondent answer completely agree and agree for all of the questions which lead to high awareness about peer review assessment for their students. We also found that most respondents who have high awareness preferred online and paper as their medium of peer assessment. It is hoped that this preliminary study will be used as indicator to shows that the need of development of online peer assessment.