The quality of a peerwise MCQ repository

Helen Purchase; John Hamer; Paul Denny; Andrew Luxton-Reilly

The quality of a peerwise MCQ repository

Helen Purchase, John Hamer, Paul Denny, Andrew Luxton-Reilly

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Abstract

PeerWise allows students to create a repository of multiple choice questions which can be attempted by their peers, and discussed between them online. Peer-Wise has been shown to foster deep learning and to improve students' performance. In this paper, we consider the nature of the repository created by a large, first year programming class, looking in particular at the quality attributes of Coverage, Question Quality, Difficulty and Indexing. The effect of student ability (as measured by a class test given before use of Peer-Wise) on the contributions to the repository is also investigated. We find that the overall quality of the repository is good, with only a few minor deficiencies, and conclude that these small defects are a small price to pay when compared with the substantial learning benefits that result from PeerWise use.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computing Education 2010 - Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Computing Education Conference, ACE 2010
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Pages	137-146
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781920682842
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	Australasian Computing Education Conference 2010 - Brisbane, Australia Duration: 18 Jan 2010 → 22 Jan 2010 Conference number: 12th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.5555/1862219 (Proceedings)

Publication series

Name	Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series
Volume	103
ISSN (Print)	1445-1336

Conference

Conference	Australasian Computing Education Conference 2010
Abbreviated title	ACE 2010
Country/Territory	Australia
City	Brisbane
Period	18/01/10 → 22/01/10
Other	Conference ACE '10 The Twelfth Australasian Computing Education Conference Brisbane, Australia — January 18 - 22, 2010 Australian Computer Society, Inc. Darlinghurst, Australia, Australia ©2010
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.5555/1862219 (Proceedings)

Keywords

MCQ
Peerwise

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Purchase, H, Hamer, J, Denny, P & Luxton-Reilly, A 2010, The quality of a peerwise MCQ repository. in Computing Education 2010 - Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Computing Education Conference, ACE 2010. Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series, vol. 103, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), pp. 137-146, Australasian Computing Education Conference 2010, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 18/01/10.

The quality of a peerwise MCQ repository. / Purchase, Helen; Hamer, John; Denny, Paul et al.
Computing Education 2010 - Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian Computing Education Conference, ACE 2010. Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), 2010. p. 137-146 (Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology Series; Vol. 103).

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