{"id":2279,"date":"2021-04-26T15:11:25","date_gmt":"2021-04-26T14:11:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/casestudies\/?p=2279"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:44:34","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T08:44:34","slug":"using-buddycheck-to-support-peer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/microsites.ncl.ac.uk\/casestudies\/2021\/04\/26\/using-buddycheck-to-support-peer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Using BuddyCheck to Support Peer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 class=\"entry-content\"><strong style=\"color: #003f80;\">Sarah Carnegie, Lecturer of Human Resource Management<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"entry-content\"><strong style=\"color: #003f80;\">Newcastle University Business School<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"entry-content\"><strong style=\"color: #e96556;\">Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences<\/strong><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>What did you do?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Using Buddycheck to support the peer review of assessed group work on a 40-credit capstone module BUS3053 Management Consultancy. Business School policy is that peer review will be carried out on any module where the group work is 50% or more of the module marks.<\/p>\n<p>Maximum of sixty-four students can take the module. Students work between October and March in teams of a maximum of eight students to research and provide recommendations to an external client to address an agreed \u2018business\u2019 issue. The assessed group work is the client presentation [10%] and the client report [40%].<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Who is involved?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>Sarah Carnegie and the teaching team on the module initially worked to develop the criteria for the peer review and the explanatory document to be issued to students.\u00a0 This was supported with guidance from LTDS on how BuddyCheck works.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>How did you do it?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In this video Sarah takes you through the process she took to use BuddyCheck within her module.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646;\" src=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=c80ccf24-78aa-4e93-b536-ad0c009a21b4&amp;autoplay=false&amp;offerviewer=true&amp;showtitle=true&amp;showbrand=false&amp;start=0&amp;interactivity=all\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Why did you do it?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The following video take you through the reasons why Sarah used this approach.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646;\" src=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=595c3b78-8dc8-4610-940b-ad0c009a2d08&amp;autoplay=false&amp;offerviewer=true&amp;showtitle=true&amp;showbrand=false&amp;start=0&amp;interactivity=all\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Does it work and Student Voice?<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>How has this been received.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 1px solid #464646;\" src=\"https:\/\/campus.recap.ncl.ac.uk\/Panopto\/Pages\/Embed.aspx?id=18ff2fef-a737-4f1e-96a7-ad0c009a3322&amp;autoplay=false&amp;offerviewer=true&amp;showtitle=true&amp;showbrand=false&amp;start=0&amp;interactivity=all\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>This approach develops the following skills and attributes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Reflective<\/li>\n<li>Self-aware<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Colleagues can find out more about the Graduate Framework on the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newcastle.sharepoint.com\/hub\/cs\/Pages\/Graduate-Framework.aspx\">University intranet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h4><strong>Useful Resources<\/strong><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/effective-practice\/assessment\/peer-assessment\/\">Peer Review and Peer Assessment: Effective Practice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncl.ac.uk\/learning-and-teaching\/digital-technologies\/buddycheck\/\">Buddycheck Guides\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Carnegie, Lecturer of Human Resource Management Newcastle University Business School Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences What did you do? 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