PeerWise A tool for peer-assisted learning in medical undergraduates Phil Smith Sub-Dean for Assessments Cardiff University School of Medicine
What is PeerWise? PeerWise https:// peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz
Assessment for learning • Writing questions helps learning • Practice questions help all students • Question writers do better in exams
Peerwise • Formative question writing • Anonymous • Badges and league tables
Peerwise • Aimed principally at Medicine Years 1 and 2 • compulsory session with wireless device • register, answer questions, then write a question • Year 3 – 5 access commercially available questions
Single Best Answer ‘most correct’
Single best answer question A 72-year-old woman develops sudden loss of vision in the right eye. She has a 2-week history of temporal headache, jaw ache, and shoulder pain. On examination, her visual acuity is 6/6 (left) but reduced to hand movements only on the right. What investigation most supports the likely diagnosis? A. blood culture B. CT scan of head C. erythrocyte sedimentation rate D. fluorescein angiography E. full blood count Answer C, ESR Feedback. Anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy may result from giant cell arteritis (temporal arteritis), typically with a very raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate.
Supervision • Day to day • assessments team • a 3rd year student • Specialist • immunology, haematology, numeracy
PeerWise in Cardiff 2015 – 16
Year 2 PeerWise 2015 – 16
Year 2 Peerwise 2015 – 16
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