Accepting constructive feedback has always been a weakness of mine, hearing about my failures every now and then is okay, but actually commiting to these and taking action is where I truly touble in. This year, in the IA, I have had the oppurtunity to experience crowdsourcing of grades, where all students had the advantage of givng grades to our peers depending on their work and participation during class. Last semester was the very first time each one of use had experienced having a voice on our classmates final grade, it was something not much of us were aware of, therefore we didn't really have a solid idea of what we were getting into. Personally, I was afraid, I had my closest friends in this class and I had never given them direct feedback before. If the task was to give constructive feedback, making them realize their own failures, wouldn't that hurt their feelings? What happens if I get hurt? Well, these were some of my many doubts I had while experincing this brand new source of grading, and believe it or not I definitely missed the usual MYP grading system.
Having already 8 months into the IA, I can say crowdsourcing is very different than what I expected, and it is definitely changing as the months go by. As I said previously, many of us where afraid of this new grading system at first, we hadn't gone as deep as it was supposed to be. The whole point of crowdsourcing was to gain confidence and trust within the community, being able to point out certain flaws of others without taking it personally, because at the end of the day it will make us learn from our mistakes and grow as individuals.
In my opinion, this wasn't the case at the begining of the semester, students were just giving out grades without actually going deep into each students' class performance. This truly affected the community because in order to grow as a class, we needed to detect any certain weak points to improve in, but with unvalid feedback there was no way of moving forward.
In my opinion, this wasn't the case at the begining of the semester, students were just giving out grades without actually going deep into each students' class performance. This truly affected the community because in order to grow as a class, we needed to detect any certain weak points to improve in, but with unvalid feedback there was no way of moving forward.
I began to see crowdsourcing differently after this past week, and the reason to this is because I noticed the achievement of becoming a class of trust and honesty.
We were all divided in small groups to give our personal opinion and advice on our peers performance. Despite being in a gruop with two of my closest friends, I was able to recieve valuable and constructive feedback, that would defintiely allow me to imporve in the future. Accepting the brutal facts was hard at first, but I realized that it was truly relieving to hear it from close friends, knowing that they want the best for me in order to grow as a student.
We were all divided in small groups to give our personal opinion and advice on our peers performance. Despite being in a gruop with two of my closest friends, I was able to recieve valuable and constructive feedback, that would defintiely allow me to imporve in the future. Accepting the brutal facts was hard at first, but I realized that it was truly relieving to hear it from close friends, knowing that they want the best for me in order to grow as a student.