Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• BRUTUS, STÉPHANE
• DONIA, MAGDA B. L.
• RONEN, SIGALIT

Titel

Can Business Students Learn to Evaluate Better? Evidence From Repeated Exposure to a Peer-Evaluation System

Ist Teil von

• Academy of Management learning & education, 2013-03, Vol.12 (1), p.18-31

Ort / Verlag

Briarcliff Manor: Academy of Management

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• In this article we describe how the repeated experience of evaluating peers in undergraduate classes resulted in students becoming more confident and skilled in the task of evaluating others. We used a matched group quasi-experimental design, in which 182 students evaluated their learning group members in three different semesters, and a control group (three matched groups of 182 students each) evaluated their team members only once. Our results indicate that repeated use of a standardized peer-evaluation system provides an effective means of increasing students' confidence in evaluating their peers, as well as improving the quality of the evaluations they provide. These findings demonstrate the added value of incorporating standardized evaluations into business school group work as a means of generating skills relevant to managerial practice. Implications for research and practice as well as future research directions are provided.