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Facilitating a deep approach to learning: An innovative case assessment technique

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 February 2015

Payyazhi Jayashree and
Sumit Mitra
Payyazhi Jayashree
Affiliation:
University of Wollongong in Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Sumit Mitra
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Management, Kozhikode, India
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Abstract

This research is an attempt to explore the impact of an innovative case assessment technique on a deep versus surface approach to learning as adopted by a large cohort of undergraduate management students studying in a reputed University. Specifically, a case assessment incorporating peer assessment in the form of a Case Challenge was introduced by the researchers to enhance deep learning, as an innovation to compartmentalized approaches to case assessment that may foster surface-level approaches to learning. Data collected through structured interviews suggest that inclusion of a challenge component in case analyses, directed and led by a peer group, substantially increased the level of preparation and ownership assumed by both the presenting team and challenging team in their own learning as also learning for the rest of the class. Results are discussed in the context of contemporary literature on learning-oriented assessment in general and the impact of peer assessments on deep versus surface approaches to learning in particular.

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deep vs. surface approaches to learninglearning-oriented assessmentcase assessmentpeer assessments

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Journal of Management & Organization , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , July 2012, pp. 555 - 572
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press and Australian and New Zealand Academy of Management 2012

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