Improving feedback quality in rubric-mediated peer assessment

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2318133892978

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Feedback, Avaliação por Pares, Rubricas

Abstract

Feedbacks are the formative elements of formative assessment and peer assessment is a practice that has the potential to help students learn how to provide good feedback. Given this context, the objective of this research was to evaluate whether the practice of peer assessment, using rubrics, would change the quality of feedback provided by students to their peers throughout four assessment activities of a curricular component. The feedbacks that undergraduate students offered to their peers in two consecutive semesters were analyzed. The results indicate that the quality of feedbacks improved throughout the assessment activities. It is concluded that the guidance for giving feedbacks, as well as the use of rubrics, contributed to the results found.

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Fabiana Campos Ferreira, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

Licenciada em Pedagogia pela Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana (UEFS) e atualmente cursa pós-graduação em Educação na Cultura Digital pela Universidade Aberta do Brasil (UAB/UEFS).

Iron Pedreira Alves, Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana

Graduado em Psicologia pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), mestre em Educação, com concentração em Psicologia Educacional, pela Faculdade de Educação da Unicamp e doutor em Psicologia pela Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Desde 1999 sou professor de Psicologia da Educação no Departamento de Educação da Universidade Estadual de Feira de Santana. Coordeno o Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas sobre Pedagogia Universitária (NEPPU) e fui Coordenador do Programa de Formação Acadêmica e Contextualização de Experiências Educacionais - ProFACE/PROGRAD, que tem como principal objetivo a formação dos/das docentes universitários/as na UEFS (2020-2024). Tenho interesse em temas relacionados à aprendizagem no Ensino Superior, incluindo a autorregulação, a motivação e a avaliação. No ano de 2024, fui contemplado com o Prêmio Professor Rubens Murillo Marques, que é uma iniciativa da Fundação Carlos Chagas para valorizar experiências formativas de docentes das licenciaturas. A minha prática premiada intitulou-se "Avaliar para aprender se aprende avaliando".

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2025-09-02

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Ferreira, F. C., & Alves, I. P. (2025). Improving feedback quality in rubric-mediated peer assessment. Regae: Revista De Gestão E Avaliação Educacional, e92978. https://doi.org/10.5902/2318133892978

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