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Area of Science:

  • Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Learning Sciences

Background:

  • Peer assessment is crucial for critical thinking development.
  • Effectiveness hinges on structured guidance.
  • A heuristic scaffolding framework was designed to embed guidance throughout the peer assessment process.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To design and validate a heuristic scaffolding framework for peer assessment.
  • To evaluate the framework's impact on students' critical thinking skills.

Main Methods:

  • Action research with two iterative teaching rounds.
  • Epistemic network analysis of textual peer assessment data.
  • Quantitative examination of critical thinking elements and their co-occurrence.

Main Results:

  • Heuristic scaffolding activated critical thinking elements and fostered cognitive networks.
  • Initial scaffolding showed a bias towards evaluation over interpretation/reasoning.
  • Optimized scaffolding enhanced the evaluation-reasoning-self-regulation cognitive chain, promoting higher-order thinking.

Conclusions:

  • The heuristic scaffolding framework effectively enhances critical thinking in peer assessment.
  • The study offers a replicable tool and data-driven approach for educators to improve instructional design for higher-order thinking.