Available at: http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/143178 [Downloaded 2023/05/26 at 11:26:20 ] "Learning by assessing: Using online student peer- assessment to improve students’ learning in political sciences" Pellon, Gaëlle ; Vandamme, Dorothée ; Baudewyns, Pierre ; Reuchamps, Min ; Legrand, Vincent ; Michel, Marianne ; Docq, Françoise ; Motte, Isabelle ABSTRACT Student peer-assessment (SPA) is known as an innovative collaborative method of learning. While the values of SPA are wildly accepted (Topping, 1998; Cho & al. 2006), it can be problematic for teachers to implement this kind of method in large classrooms and to insure that students accept and benefit of it. In the Belgian context, implementing student peer-assessment at the Bachelor level is challenging in multiple ways: First, while the number of universities using this kind of method is increasing , Belgian universities have still to take the step. The experience presented in this article will, therefore, be of particular interest in terms of sharing of practices. Second, the use of SPA as a learning and assessment method means to challenge student's learning habits and to ask them to replace individual and competitive learning for collaborative learning. Both challenges raise sets of questions about the institutional, personal or technological capacity to adapt . Among all the issues raised by student peer-assessment, the question of how students benefit of this practice still needs to be studied. This contribution will focus on this specific question and will discuss the implications of implementing SPA in first year bachelor students in political sciences. Using the data of a pre and post questionnaire and of students’ results, our main argument is that online SPA can significantly help students to improve their learning outcomes. This working-in progress paper will be divided into three parts. The first part briefly presents the project implemented (objectives and... CITE THIS VERSION Pellon, Gaëlle ; Vandamme, Dorothée ; Baudewyns, Pierre ; Reuchamps, Min ; Legrand, Vincent ; et. al. Learning by assessing: Using online student peer-assessment to improve students’ learning in political sciences.Congrès de l'Association internationale de pédagogie universitaire (Mons, du 19/05/2014 au 23/05/2014). http://hdl.handle.net/2078.1/143178 Le dépôt institutionnel DIAL est destiné au dépôt et à la diffusion de documents scientifiques émanant des membres de l'UCLouvain. Toute utilisation de ce document à des fins lucratives ou commerciales est strictement interdite. L'utilisateur s'engage à respecter les droits d'auteur liés à ce document, principalement le droit à l'intégrité de l'œuvre et le droit à la paternité. La politique complète de copyright est disponible sur la page Copyright policy DIAL is an institutional repository for the deposit and dissemination of scientific documents from UCLouvain members. Usage of this document for profit or commercial purposes is stricly prohibited. User agrees to respect copyright about this document, mainly text integrity and source mention. Full content of copyright policy is available at Copyright policy