Once the review phase is terminated, students can access their reviews, and they can rate them from 1 star (very unhelpful, bogus) to 5 stars (very helpful). This feedback is used to motivate students to write helpful reviews, and it is part of the crowd-grades computed.This feedback phase is concluded when instructors compute the grades. CrowdGrader analyzes all feedback to compute the crowd-grades. Once the grades are computed, no more feedback is accepted nor analyzed. Tit-for-tat or retaliatory feedback. CrowdGrader classifies feedback as either reliable, or as possibly retaliatory (tit-for-tat) in nature. Retaliatory feedback occurs when a student reacts to a low grade by giving low feedback on the person who wrote the review and assigned the grade. Retaliatory feedback is not used to compute crowd-grades, and it is clearly labeled as such. In this way, students who receive retaliatory feedback to their low grades can rest assured that the retaliation did not hurt their grade. |