The concept is simple: each student must score the work of five classmates to get their own score, the average of what their peers gave them.
In "My Perestroika," presented by "POV" at 10 on Channel 13, and at 11 on Channel 49, Robin Hessman looks at the last generation of Soviet youth through the stories of five classmates.
In Tehran, students from the Amirkabir University of Technology announced that they would not take part in classes or exams until the release of four classmates detained during street protests last Sunday.
I'm squeamish, and this novel, structured as letters to her ex-husband written by the mother of a 15-year-old responsible for the gruesome massacre of seven classmates, was ubiquitously described as harrowing.
Coursera's humanities courses use peer-to-peer grading, with students first having to show that they can match a professor's grading of an assignment, and then grade the work of five classmates, in return for which their work is graded by five fellow students.
Following the training session, students in groups of eight classmates had a lower self-assessment than participants in groups of three or five classmates (X3: 8.2 (IQR 7.2 - 9.0), X5: 8.0 (IQR 7.9 - 9.0), X8: 7.0 (IQR 6.1 - 9.0).
Although we did not measure the satisfaction of our participants, we found that students in groups of eight classmates had a lower self-assessment than participants in groups of three or five students per tutor.
Although tutors were told to spend the same time practicing for each individual participant, students in groups of eight classmates had less hands-on time to practice BLS skills.
The young student's unfailing geniality made him popular enough, but there were those who found him, in the words of one classmate, "bumptious, cocky, conceited".
