Abstract:
The ability to assess the work ofothers is one of the core skills for IT professionals. Developing this graduate attribute
requires the learning of peer evaluation, feedback and review skills by students. This paper discusses the
changing design of peer assessment and the impact of a new groupwork support tool within a capstone undergraduate
subject with large student numbers - Systems Development Project - in the Faculty of IT at UTS. From 1998 to 2005 by
implementing different support strategies for peer assessment of individual contributions, the distribution of the students
marks has markedly widened, and now more reflect the reality of differing team member contributions. This substantial
change has occurred with the use of an online tool which supports the development of student evaluation, feedback and
review skills when peer assessing individual contributions to large group projects. In use since 2004 the groupwork
support tool is called Team Contribution Tracking - TeCTra.
