Automating Peer Evaluation and Attendance in Chemical Engineering Education: A Google-Based Approach

Abstract

Teaching and learning processes not only involve activities, but class preparation management and pedagogies also play an important role in ensuring quality education is delivered properly. With high-performance indicators to be achieved by academicians, teaching and learning management must be automated to reduce the time spent on these processes. Thus, the one-stop center on content management, automated peer evaluation form (APEF), and attendance management system (AMS) were developed to assist educators in managing academic duties. To date, three chemical engineering courses have been fully developed under the one-stop center which consists of lecture notes, videos, tutorials, past year questions, and any scaffolding activities. APEF and AMS were developed in a Google environment combining Google Site, Sheet, Form, Docs, and Scripts. The APEF was designed to reduce errors in data management and data population of the peer evaluation marks. Meanwhile, the motivation for AMS is to ensure paperless and seamless attendance monitoring can be conducted on real time basis. The output is a fully automated peer evaluation form and attendance monitoring system that can monitor student peer evaluation submission in real-time, providing automated data population and calculation, tracking student attendance, and serving as an evidence collection tool. These tools have had a great impact on the instructors as well as the students in managing their classroom as shown in the 100% agreement in the user satisfaction survey.  Although the implementation of these tools as a department practice is not yet in place, the potential of mass adoption is profound due to its simplicity, applicability, and scalability.