The not so wise peers…
Currently completing some questions in relation to Chapter two and I thought it would be good to reflect on PeerWise.
If the aim of PeerWise is a P2P study model whereby you can test your knowledge about Accounting than it becomes rather convoluted when you start to sift through some of the questions that have been presented on the platform.
Questions of a trivial nature do not add to the learning experience nor do subjective questions about general knowledge non-related to the subject. To the contrary they clog up the question feed. There are currently 714 unanswered questions on my feed. Asking a question about what year a movie was released that is mentioned within the study guide to enforce a generalised quote would be one example I can think of that adds no value whatsoever.
Furthermore, it appears the real game here is to post as many questions one can to try and inflate one’s reputation score. Now I know this can be combated by marking down people’s questions with a “poor” score but that in itself seems de-valued the process especially when anyone can rate a question of yours as “poor” and you can’t see who has done this or rebut the fact.
Perhaps a better idea would be multiple filter categories where you could filter questions not only on someone’s reputation by also the question ranking. However, some of these questions have been marked “good” or even “very good” which makes my mind boggle. Perhaps an even better scenario is where you could un-follow an author, so you don’t have to see any of their questions in the future. This unfortunately doesn’t give much leeway to a redemption path or second chance.
Hayden Anderson - CQUniversity 
Hey Hayden I agree with you and what you said about how there can be some really poor questions circling around. Lots of repetitive questions as well that aren’t very useful also.
In regards to changing how the questions are sorted, you can change how they are sorted by clicking ‘sort’ in the blue banner under the titles of each column. For example under ‘difficulty rating’ and ‘overall rating’
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Hi Kayla, Thanks for the feedback – I do actually filter that bar across the top – however you can only have one filter, I think multiple filters would be better. Hope you’re going well.
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Yeah that is very true. I am doing well how about yourself?
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Great points Hayden, and I definitely agree. In the introduction and maybe some of chapter one, you can get away with asking some non-accounting questions. I can see some sense in asking questions like, “what year did a movie get released?”, as it can test to see whether you’ve read the content or just guessing answers. But as you said, we won’t really get much out of it.
I naturally just go for questions that relate to accounting, or personal/professional development, and avoid the ones that are clearly there to get the volume up for a better score. Some of us don’t have the time that others may have so I need to focus on the ones I feel are relevant.
Great system though, nothing wrong with PeerWise, and I have even taken the idea of PeerWise to implement into the learning of my own students, just at a lower level.
Thanks for the post Hayden
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Hi Chris, Thanks for the comment – completely agree that is the way to go – its just ahrd to filter through the muck sometimes.
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Hey hayden, you actually made me jump on and look… i normally go on peerwise every night before bed, (I get to sleep around 2 am most days, just soo very busy) and I found myself asleep ny 10.30 so I didnt get to peer wise… 1 day, and my questions have doubled from 300 and something to 600 and something… I definitely agree that a second filtration system, or even when we make questions, a filter of sorts, so we dont have 15 people asking what instrument Martin plays? Now, it was the Trumpet, wasnt it? 😛
Gayle
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Thanks Gayle, good to see other people are on the same wave length here.
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Have to agree. I can understand that sometimes you just want to test the waters and put an easy first question out there, but there are some questions you can see perhaps not a lot of thought’s gone into them. With over 300 bodies on the unit, people will be a different stages of their reading as well, so reading a few questions before writing would be a benefit
I’ve started to filter by difficulty to avoid the more repetitive, simple questions. My particular issue is with the wording of some of the questions, some have been terrible and then there’s no explanation. The question is unclear the answer is left field and there’s no clue as to what the questioner was thinking. To me the explanation and references are very helpful especially if I’m taking a stab at a question from a further chapter. Quality is better than quantity
It’s a learning tool, it’ll have it’s benefits and limitations, learning to get round that is all part of the game.
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Totally agree mate, especially when you have limited time – the last thing you want is to spend 15 minutes sorting through questions.
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I 100% agree with what you are saying here. I am also glad that there are a number of other students that have the same feelings as myself.
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It makes it tough thats for sure Cas.
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I’m a bit late to the game here, but I just wanted to say I think you have expressed eloquently what a lot of us are thinking regarding PeerWise! Also, well done on setting up a great blog!
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