From peer assessment towards collaborative learning

Peer assessment is one form of innovative assessment which aims to integrate learning and assessment. Peer assessment can also be seen as a special type of collaborative learning, where the task can be specified by using so called collaboration scripts. This implies the application of a more or less rigid schema (collaboration script) for structuring the task. Although peer assessment has positive effects on knowledge acquirement there is a lack of web-based collaborative peer assessment systems. Thus we have implemented a peer assessment application for review and discussion of artifacts. In our approach it is new that students use presentation recording tools to create personal presentations. It is possible to use these continuous documents for peer assessment. With this approach we lift restrictions to submit only static documents for peer review.