Taking learning outcomes to the gym : Programme d'entraînement pour les résultats d'apprentissage : méthode d'établissement et d'évaluation des résultats d'apprentissage fondée sur les travaux scolaires

These include the following: Content Knowledge Clearly, whatever the subject matter of the course we are teaching, one of our primary goals as educators is to transfer the core aspects of that content – and hopefully some of the details as well – to our students. [...] In the partial peerScholar process, this is the sole measure of this combined ability, but when the full peerScholar process is used it can also help inform the subject-matter specialists’ opinion of the quality of the draft, in combination with their own reading and evaluation of said draft. [...] Different people use the term a little differently in the literature, but most would agree that part of the concept at least refers to the ability to analyze, compare and evaluate with the goal to ultimately ascertain the quality of some argument. [...] Of course, this is exactly what we ask our students to do in the Assess Phase of a peerScholar assignment, with the grade they assign reflecting their ultimate opinion of the quality of the given piece. [...] If we assume that the grade provided by averaging the five other student grades provides a good measure of the actual quality of the piece (Paré & Joordens, 2008), then if we compute the difference between the grade provided by a given student and the average of the other students who marked that peer, take the absolute difference, and sum these absolute differences and divide by the number of dif