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PeerWise A tool for peer-assisted learning in medical undergraduates

Phil Smith Sub-Dean for Assessments Cardiff University School of Medicine

PeerWise

What is PeerWise?

https:// peerwise.cs.auckland.ac.nz

Assessment for learning

• Writing questions helps learning
• Practice questions help all students
• Question writers do better in exams

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• Formative question writing
• Anonymous
• Badges and league tables

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• Aimed principally at Medicine Years 1 and 2
• compulsory session with wireless device
• register, answer questions, then write a question
• Year 3–5 access commercially available questions

Single Best Answer

‘most correct’

Single best answer question

A 72-year-old woman develops sudden loss of vision in the right eye. She has a 2-week history of temporal headache, jaw ache, and shoulder pain. On examination, her visual acuity is 6/6 (left) but reduced to hand movements only on the right. What investigation most supports the likely diagnosis? A. blood culture B. CT scan of head C. erythrocyte sedimentation rate D. fluorescein angiography E. full blood count Answer C, ESR

• Feedback. Anterior ischaemic optic neuropathy may result from giant

cell arteritis (temporal arteritis), typically with a very raised erythrocyte sedimentation rate.

Supervision

• Day to day
• assessments team
• a 3rd year student
• Specialist
• immunology, haematology, numeracy

PeerWise in Cardiff 2015– 16

Year 2 PeerWise 2015–16

Year 2 Peerwise 2015–16

Question writing

Question answering

Question commenting

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