AN APPLICATION OF PEER ASSESSMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study is to practice peer evaluation and to determine if the result of the evaluation shows similarity with the lecturer evaluation, thus to make assumption about the validity of peer evaluation in higher education. For this purpose, students of “Specific Teaching Methods I” class, which is included in the 3. Class of Department of Computer and Instructional Technologies Teaching, Gazi Faculty of Education, Gazi University, evaluated peers for their term project. In order to determine the similarity between peer and lecturer evaluation, the correlation between scores of lecturer and scores gained by peer evaluation is calculated. The result of the study revealed that peer evaluation showed similarity with lecturer evaluation.