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Dr Gwijde Maegherman

Lecturer in Psychology 

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Gwijde will be working with the Queen Mary Academy as a Fellow from January 2025. The focus of his fellowship will be how we can improve students' and educators' experiences of assessment, with an emphasis on peer assessment

This project focuses on how we can improve students' and educators' experiences of assessment, with an emphasis on peer assessment. Peer assessment can provide improvements in students’ self-reflection, understanding, and learning processes, but obstacles remain in making it an effective assessment method. In particular, educators often find it difficult to integrate peer assessment in a way that is communicable and agreeable to students, easy to set up and use, and leverages co-creation opportunities effectively. The project aims to develop our understanding of the current use of peer assessment at QMUL (its perceived advantages and barriers for use), to develop an easy-to-use, well-documented peer assessment tool integrating with our VLE, and to assess this understanding and development through a pilot study on multiple courses.

Gwijde has been working as an educator since his PhD, teaching a variety of modules on language, psychology and cognitive neuroscience at University College London and Queen Mary University of London. He is a member of the Experimental Psychology Society and has been a lecturer at QMUL since 2022, obtaining Advance HE Fellowship in 2024.

Gwijde's scholarship interests focus primarily on assessment and technology in teaching. His work on peer assessment has been a recent focus, with contributions from a pilot study run in 2023 presented at the Festival of Education in 2024. Gwijde has a keen interest in the use of mixed/augmented reality in teaching, and has worked with the Technology Enhanced Learning Team to bring mixed reality into the classroom (see TELT Magazine for a recently published case study). Finally, he has an emerging interest in better understanding the mental health of students, in particular how stress and anxiety can build up as students progress through a term of higher education teaching.

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