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Subject: "Whose work is it anyway?" (Ebersbach A. et al, 2005)

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marija cubric
Posts: 25
29/05/2007 09:34  
In response to Peter's comment:
"plagiarism becomes a nonsensical concept when the work is a
collaboration among a group of authors. Yet in the end, an individual was awarded an A-C on the final assignment. Is it fair for a writer to take credit for others work?"

There were two types of wiki-based activities in our study:
- weekly wiki contributions, where students work in collaboration in response to the weekly task, but are assessed individually
- on-line essay development, where students develop the work individually using “transactional” writing style (Glogowski quoted in Richardson, 2006) : write, reflect on comments, re-write;

Assuming that the comment is in the context of the second activity i.e. on-line development of individual essays, the metaphore is the review process of the journal publications: is it fair for the writer to take credit for the work of reviewers? Same principle could be applied for the students' work, however, if the reviewer's contribution is significant then it should be acknowledged by the author



Peter Kandlbinder
Posts: 4
31/05/2007 02:32  
Hi Marija,

My original comment was made on the understanding that a wiki has multiple authors. It now sounds to me like each online essay has a single author with peer feedback provided by reviewers which is similar similar to activities I've run using online discussion boards.

Can I try and disentangle this a little more? The writing process is broken down into 2 separate processes, writing and receiving feedback on the writing. Assuming that the writing part is assessed summatively based on the final product, is the student's ability to give and use of the comments also assessed? One way that I've seen this done is that students need to produce a short reflective statement which discusses the comments made about their work and what changes they have made to the text as a result of those comments. Are you making any judgments on the quality of the comments made by the reviewers?
marija cubric
Posts: 25
31/05/2007 16:31  
Hi Peter

thanks for clarification; Adding to your discussion
"is the student's ability to give and use of the comments also assessed?" No, apart from "should have tried to address more comments from your reviewers in the final version" type of comment on the final grade feedback form.
But I like your idea about students writting "response matrix" ont eh received comments! Great idea and it fits with the "work records" concepts that I used very well!

Re: quality of comments, I have "commented on some comments" in individual e-mails or F2F when I found the comments too critical or not constructive. To be honest in two year practice, that happend only once. But, did not attempt to qualify and assess the comments simply because at this stage it was important to get in any comments . What do you think, would it be worthwhile assessing comments?
I agree that students have to develop their reviewing and critical abilities and have tried to assess their literature reviewes - but that is not an easy task... Are you aware of any research/guidelines on assessing "reviews" or "feedback"?



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