StudySieve is an online tool in which students create questions with sample solutions and share those questions with their peers. Once a question is answered, the other answers submitted to that question are revealed. All questions and answers are rated using a simple peer review process.
Publications
The following publications relate directly to StudySieve.
StudySieve pedagogy
- Luxton-Reilly, A. & Denny, P. (2010), 'Constructive evaluation: a pedagogy of student-contributed assessment', Computer Science Education 20 (2), 145-167.
About StudySieve
- Luxton-Reilly, A., Denny, P., Plimmer, B. & Bertinshaw, D. Supporting Student-generated Free-response Questions, in ITiCSE '11: Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM SIGCSE conference on Innovation and technology in computer science education, ACM, 2011
- Luxton-Reilly, A.; Denny, P.; Plimmer, B. & Sheehan, R., StudySieve: supporting student-generated free-response questions, in R. Mann, S. & Verhaart, M. (ed.) Proceedings on 1st Annual Conference of Computing and Information Technology, Education and Research in New Zealand (incorporating 23rd Annual NACCQ), 2010, 129-137
- Luxton-Reilly, A., Plimmer, B., & Sheehan, R. (2010) Studysieve – A Tool that Supports Constructive Evaluation for free-response questions, in CHINZ'10, July 8, 2010, Auckland, New Zealand (In press)
Documentation for version 2.0
Some user documentation is included below.
Availability
Following feedback from students, the system is undergoing major redevelopment. A newer, improved version will be ready for use in S1, 2012.