Impact of Peer Feedback in a Web Programming Course on Students’ Achievement

Abstract

In addition to learning technical aspects of website creation, students must connect different knowledge, think critically, seek more information, and approach their work from various perspectives. These requirements, or specified competencies, can be developed through providing and receiving peer feedback, which is confirmed as an efficient learning strategy in various empirical studies on different subjects. The aim of this research is to investigate the impact of peer feedback on students’ achievements in the Web Programming Course. We conducted a quantitative study with two groups of students. Students from the experimental group participated in online giving and receiving peer feedback regarding students’ assignments, while students from the control group did not have this opportunity. For evaluating students’ work, we used rubrics. The results indicate that students, through analyzing their peers’ work, providing qualitative assessments, reflecting on their work in line with received comments, and making necessary corrections, create content that surpasses the quality of websites created by their peers who did not have the opportunity to participate in peer feedback activities. Since students extensively analyzed their work after receiving comments and suggestions, made specific corrections, and consequently improved their projects, organizing peer feedback activities in programming courses, especially web programming, should be given more attention.