peerScholar Conference Presentations

Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2010, June). Supporting the development of critical thought and effective communication: The pedagogical power of peer assessment via peerScholar. Presented at the 71st Annual Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) convention at the Winnipeg Convention Centre, Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Pare, D. E., Joordens, S., Prusse, K. (2009, July). peerScholar: An evidence-based online peer-assessment tool for promoting critical thought and clear communication. Presented at the 4th International Conference on e-Learning: ICEL 2009, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Pare, D. E., & Joordens, S. (2009, July). The invisible researcher: Using online tools for laboratory-like studies in naturalistic environments. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2009, Orlando, Florida.

Desa, S., Pare, D. E., & Joordens, S. (2009, July). The pedagogical anatomy of peer assessment: Dissecting a peerScholar assignment. Presented at the 7th International Conference on Education and Information Systems, Technologies and Applications: EISTA 2009, Orlando, Florida.

Collimore, L., & Pare, D. E. (2009, April). Learning through teaching: Using peer assessment for the developmental sciences. Presented at the 2009 Biennial Meeting of Society for Research in Child Development (SRCD)—Teaching Institute: Denver, Colorado. Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2009, January). The pedagogical punch of peer assessment: Critical thinking, clear communication, and so much more. Presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2009, January). The pedagogical punch of peer assessment: Critical thinking, clear communication, and so much more. Presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Pete Beach, Florida.

Pare, D. E., & Joordens, S. (2008, June). To thine own self be true: Self-assessment in the context of peer assessment. Presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 28th Annual Meeting, University of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario.

Pare, D. E., & Joordens, S. (2008, June). Self-efficacy in the context of peer assessment: An examination of cognitive interference, changes in peer grading, and changes in self-assessment scores. Presented at the Canadian Society for Brain, Behaviour and Cognitive Science 18th Annual Meeting, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Pare, D. E. (2007, November). Tired of marking? Using peerScholar to explore the change in peer grading reliability as a function of increased number of peer evaluations. Presented at the Society for Computers in Psychology 37th Annual Meeting, Long Beach, California.

Pare, D. E., & Joordens, S. (2007, June). How many peers does it take to not screw up an evaluation? Ensuring reliability in peer-given frades. Presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 27th Annual Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2007, June). "I deserve a better mark": Examining fairness and awareness of deficit in the context of peer evaluation. Presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 27th Annual Meeting, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta.

Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2007, May). Peer evaluation via peerScholar: A fair and effective way of developing thinking and writing skills to even large lecture settings. Presented at the 30th McGraw-Hill Ryerson National Teaching, Learning, and Technology Conference: The Sprit of Inquiry, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec.

Pare, D. E., & Joordens, S. (2006, June). Peering into the future: Assessing an online peer-evaluation tool that supports writing assignments in large lecture settings. Presented at the Society for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 26th Annual Meeting, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

MacDonald, B., Pare, D. E., & Joordens, S. (2006, March). Peer assessment: Students learning from students. Presented at the Workshop for the Office of Teaching Advancement at the University, Toronto, Ontario.

Pare, D. E. (2006, November). peerScholar: An online peer-evaluation tool designed to return knowledge-use skills to large classes. Presented at the Society for Computers in Psychology 36th Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.

Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2005, November). Returning knowledge-use skills to large lecture halls: The reading, thinking and communicating portal (RTCP). Presented at the Lunch Time Lecture series at the University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto, Ontario.

Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2005, July). Developing the reading, thinking and communicating portal (RTCP). Presented to the Computer Science department at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.

Joordens, S., & Pare, D. E. (2005, April). The reading, thinking and communicating portal (RTCP). Presented at the Innovative Teaching and Technology series at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario.