Students Learning to Evaluate Better

In a recent study published in the Academy of Management Learning and Education, “Can Business Students Learn to Evaluate Better? Evidence from Repeated Exposure to a Peer-Evaluation System” found that the more students evaluated their peers the more confident they became as both givers and receivers of feedback.

Stéphane Brutus, from Concordia University, Magda B. L. Donia, from the University of Ottawa, and Sigalit Ronen, from Trident University International looked at 182 students, matched by quasi-experimental design; students evaluated learning group members for three separate semesters, as well as a control group (three matched groups of 182 students each) evaluated their team members for just one semester.

Research showed that the repetitive use of a standardized peer-evaluation system offers an effective way of increasing students’ confidence in evaluation of their peers, as well as improving the quality of the evaluations they deliver.

Their findings demonstrate the benefit of adding standardized evaluations into group work in the business school setting as a means of producing skills relevant to managerial practices.

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