Peer assessment can add valuable and desirable skills to a MBA curriculum by providing students with effective feedback and allowing them to gain insights from their peers. Providing feedback to one another also encourages students to think critically, communicate constructively and contributes to a growth mindset.
Triggering a Growth Mindset
A growth mindset is when an individual believes that anything can be achieved through feedback, continuous learning and hard work. Receiving feedback from peers encourages students to accept critique and help from others, a key component to a growth component. While receiving feedback is a huge benefit to peer assessment, students often end up benefiting more from the act of giving feedback. When giving feedback students learn from the different perspectives of their peers;
“I also learn a lot from the feedback given to me by others. In general, just being exposed to other ways of completing the same assignment is really helpful, and sometimes graders go out of their way to give you extra pointers as how to improve.”*
Enabling MBA graduates with a growth mindset will prepare them to take on any challenge from different perspectives and seek collaborations that will enrich their work.
Peer Assessment and Working Collaboratively
Working collaboratively is a highly sought after skill in MBA graduates as it prepares students to work in diverse teams. Peer assessment platforms like Peergrade allow students to submit assignments as groups while also receiving feedback individually. Peergrade also allows teachers to simplify and automate the peer assessment process while offering students anonymity and trust in the peer assessment process.
Copenhagen Business School is currently using Peergrade in MBA courses, where the group capability has been used successfully for handing in projects. Students worked in groups to hand in the project together and then the students gave feedback individually. Just in this MBA course alone, students wrote close to 30,000 words of feedback for one another, an incredible increase in the amount of feedback they received. The students got a chance to engage these skills of teamwork and collaboration that are often common among MBA students while also adding the individual element of peer evaluation.
“It is a fine way of balancing group contribution via group assignments and individual contribution.” *
A Perfect Match
Incorporating peer assessment into MBA programs increases desirable and critical skills while also offering students more and better feedback. To learn more about Peergrade and how it can add value to your curriculum, visit our website here.
*All quotes are from students that used Peergrade, taken from after-course surveys
