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Mobius SLIP: Anonymous Peer Assessments

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Mobius SLIP is a program and a method which was created to allow colleges and universities to more effectively and efficiently evaluate their students through anonymous peer assessments. Mobius SLIP was founded in 2012 at the University of North Carolina, Greensburo Campus under the acronym CTASIT (Complex Task Assessment Solutions and Information Technology), by Alexey Babik, Dmytro Babik, and Eric Ford. The SLIP program is a modern incarnation of the Socratic Method. “The Socratic method is a method of hypothesis elimination, in that better hypotheses are found by steadily identifying and eliminating those that lead to contradictions. The Socratic method searches for general, commonly held truths that shape opinion, and scrutinizes them to determine their consistency with other beliefs.”(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socratic_method) At its core is the concept of peer evaluation, assessment, and criticism which offers the students an opportunity to improve their work. This also encourages both critical and creative thought allowing more opportunity for improvement. Part of its name ‘Mobius’ refers to the endless Mobius strip concept. This is likely an allusion to its concept as a continued learning (teaching how to learn) tool. …show more content…

This means that students do all the heavy reading and write a brief response in which they critique the assignment and add any corrections or new ideas that they may have to the work. SLIP is flexible and scalable to any classroom or online course setting, from small college classes and for these reasons especially useful in university classes where 400 or more students are possible because professors and teachers can choose to no longer write corrections onto the reports of their students, and instead only need to mark the

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