Knowledge Sharing in the Classroom: A Social Network Approach for Diagnostic Assessment and Learning Together

The basis for individual students´ instructional support by teachers is an individual diagnosis of one´s learning advances and difficulties. Even though sophisticated diagnostic tools exist, it remains an open question how diagnosis and learning can be merged into a consistent pedagogical method to support both teachers and students with feedback about the learning process. We propose a model for integration of peer assessment functionality for learning into a computer-based Adaptive Diagnostic Learning Environment to solve central problems of classroom diagnostic assessment, adaptive learning and knowledge transfer between peers in a classroom environment. The addressed issues, the approach and our evaluation setup are explained.