Business Students' Experience with Peer Grading

Implementing peer grading in a business study programme presents a challenge for teachers and students, especially at universities where peer grading still presents un unusual and unknown pedagogical approach. The whole process must be well-planned in advance, and the assessment criteria must be clear, defined, and understandable. In addition, students need to develop assessment literacy. Increased interest for an elective course forced us to think about maintaining all students' interactions that had been developed in the previous years without compromising learning outcomes achievements and the course quality. Peer grading/assessment was gradually implemented. Despite the larger and heterogeneous group, the students qualified for peer evaluation and met the course learning outcomes without any problems. The use of peer assessment had several advantages, including that the students worked more and harder than in other "traditional" courses. It was evident that students were learning through this peer assessment process, which gave their studies additional depth. Students left the course with a positive learning experience that might be used in other learning circumstances.