Read the question carefully. Some instructors include important information in the question, such as how long your response must be or specific topics your response must cover.
.. note:: Your response must contain fewer than 10,000 words (approximately the equivalent of 20 pages of 8.5x11 paper, with text single-spaced).
After you compose a response, type it into the response field under **Your Response**, and then click **Submit your response and move to the next step**. If you can't finish your response all at once, you can click **Save Your Progress** to save a draft of your response, and then come back and submit it later.
After you submit your response, if no other students have submitted responses yet, you'll see the following message:
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Assess Additional Peer Responses (optional)
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If you've assessed the required number of peer responses and completed your self assessment, and the you can assess additional peer responses. To do this, click the **Assess Peers** heading. If any responses remain to be assessed, a new response opens.
If you've assessed the required number of peer responses and completed your self assessment, you can assess additional peer responses. To do this, click the **Assess Peers** heading. If any responses remain to be assessed, a new response opens.
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Peer Assessment Scoring
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Peer assessments are scored by criteria. An individual criterion's score is the median of the scores that each peer assessor gave that criterion. For example, if the Ideas criterion in a peer assessment receives a 10 from one student, a 7 from a second student, and an 8 from a third student, the Ideas criterion's score is 8.
A student's final score for a peer assessment is the sum of the median scores for each individual criterion.
For example, a response may receive the following scores from peer assessors:
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* - Criterion Name
- Peer 1
- Peer 2
- Peer 3
- Median
* - Ideas (out of 10)
- 10
- 7
- 8
- **8**
* - Content (out of 10)
- 7
- 9
- 8
- **8**
* - Grammar (out of 5)
- 4
- 4
- 5
- **4**
To calculate the final score, the system adds the median scores for each criterion:
**Ideas median (8/10) + Content median (8/10) + Grammar median (4/5) = final score (20/25)**
Note, again, that final scores are calculated by criteria, not by individual assessor. Thus the response's score is not the median of the scores that each individual peer assessor gave the response.
