文档介绍：Promoting Class Peer Assessment in Engineering Education
Koh Yit Yan
Faculty of Engineering and Technology
INTI International University College, Malaysia
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Abstract: The supportive statement from the Deputy Prime Minister of Malaysia in April pointed out a new direction in the current education development in this country, where there is a need for the revampment of the current education philosophy, which, in other words, to reduce or eliminate the rote learning in the current education system. In light of this, the author’s faculty has initialised a pilot study of the Transformative Learning in three engineering classes during the May 2007 semester. The idea of this study is to implement the relatively new philosophy of learning into the current education system that switches the learning environment from Rote learning to understanding and from an Acceptance mindset to reconceptualisation. Having involved in the research of the study, the author has introduced the idea of Class Peer Assessment into the class activities in helping students to reconceptualise the knowledge. This paper reports on the students’ perception on this idea and their performance with the implementation of the idea, on how far they agree with this type of education system.
Introduction and Background
The idea of transformative learning has been introduced with the aim t