SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
ME 120 Experimental Methods
Homework #2: Calibrated Peer Review Warmup
1. We are going to be using a new, web-based system called Calibrated Peer Review (CPR) to
help you develop your writing skills in ME 120. Your first assignment using CPR will be to
get familiar with it.
Here is what you need to do:
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Read the Overview for CPR included below
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Go to the ME 120 website and follow the link entitled, ‘CPR Stuff’
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Follow the link for your section
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Get the CPR userid corresponding to the last 4 digits of your SJSU ID number
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Read the student handout located at:
http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/resources/documents/misc/Student_Handout.pdf and/or
follow the guide for New Users below to find out how to get started using CPR
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Go to the CPR website at: http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/cpr_info/
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Log in to CPR
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Take the Tour and pretest
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Go to the assignment for your section (Measurement and Significant Figures) and
complete the Text Entry Stage. (Note: you have one week to do this. Next week you
will finish the last two stages.)
2. Problems 3.1 and 4.1 in the LabView book. Make sure to turn in hard copy printouts of your
Front Panel and Block Diagram.
BJ Furman
ME120HW2S03.doc
01/29/03
SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
ME 120 Experimental Methods
Overview for CPR
Calibrated Peer Review TM (CPR) is a UCLA-based on-line writing program, supported by the
National Science Foundation. It has been thoroughly tested in courses nationwide. CPR has each
learner answer guiding questions for a topic, enter an essay based on guiding questions, evaluate
with a scoring rubric three instructor-versions of the essay (exemplary, intermediate, and poor
quality), evaluate anonymously the essays for three peers, and evaluate his/her own essay to
conclude the process. Three peers, in turn, evaluate the learner's essay. The learner earns one
score for each of the following four modes of evaluation.
1. evaluating the quality of the instructor's calibrations (versions of different quality);
2. evaluating the essays of peers;
3. writing a quality essay; and
4. accurately evaluating his/her own essay.
CPR gives learners who are not yet able to accurately judge the quality of written work a much
lower weight for peer review compared to the more competent reviewers. This eliminates
erroneously high scores typically given by those lacking confidence in ability to judge. CPR
builds such confidence as learners progress through a number of assignments. Learners may use
any computer with internet access. Also, they may access any internet link the instructor deems
relevant for the assignment (e.g., guiding questions, writing prompts for the essay, problemsolving scenarios/ simulations, literature and on-line resources, etc.).
Assignment Structure
– Students MUST complete ALL of the following stages for each assignment.
Stage 1: Text Entry Stage
<begins w/ Assignment Start Time>
Stage 2: Reviews Stage
<begins w/ Text Entry End Time>
During this stage…
1. Explore Source material about the topic
2. Write an essay (text) about the topic and
enter it in the CPR program.
During this stage…
1. Evaluate three example texts for this assignment.
These evaluations are called “Calibrations.”
2. Evaluate three texts written by classmates (peers).
This part is called “Reviews.”
3. Students evaluate their own text, in a part called
“Self-assessment.”
<ends w/ Text Entry End Time>
Stage 3: Results Stage
<begins w/ Assignment End Time>
<ends w/ Assignment End Time>
During this stage…
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Students check the results of the
assignment.
For Student Tour for CPR, access the following URL and thenCLICK “Tour CPR”:
http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr_info/index.asp
BJ Furman
ME120HW2S03.doc
01/29/03
SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
ME 120 Experimental Methods
New Users: Complete an account profile
1. Connect to the CPR login page: http://cpr.molsci.ucla.edu/cpr/cpr/login.asp
2. CLICK “New Users: first time logging in?”
3. SELECT ‘San Jose State University’ in the pull down menu
4. ENTER your Social Security Number without dashes in the window “Enter Your
Institution ID,” and CLICK ‘Next.’ This Web site is fully secure, as it must ensure that
essays submitted by users cannot be accessed by ‘hackers.’
5. ENTER a Password (you make this up according to the instructions). Also enter a challenge
question and answer. This challenge question will be used if you forget your login
information.
6. This will give you a unique CPR ID. Write it down. You will need it every time you login to
CPR.
7. Completing the tour of CPR and its quiz will allow you to login to CPR for your first
assignment.
8. To login, ENTER your CPR ID in the Username window, then your Password, and CLICK
‘Submit.’
Tips
To retain your work despite loss of Internet connections or other problems, try the following:
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Avoid writing essays on-line. Type all essays in a text file (Microsoft Word, Notepad, etc.).
Save this file on the desktop or floppy disk. To enter the essay in CPR, simply Copy the
text and Paste it into the CPR text entry box.
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If you already have entered in CPR an essay you would like to edit later, Copy and Paste it
to a text file on a floppy disk. Writing essays off-line saves time as well as the most recent
version of the essay in case the connection is lost.
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Is the Web page you’re working with still on-line? Or is it from storage in your computer’s
temporary files? Ensure that you’re working with a ‘live’ connection. With Internet
Explorer, make the following setting:
1. CLICK ‘Tools’ to open a pull down menu
2. CLICK ‘Internet Options’ to open the ‘Internet Options’ box
3. CLICK TAB called ‘General,’ at the top left of the ‘Internet Options’ box
4. FIND ‘Temporary Internet Files’ in the ‘Internet Options’ box
BJ Furman
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SAN JOSÉ STATE UNIVERSITY
Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
ME 120 Experimental Methods
5. CLICK ‘Settings’ to open a box for ‘Settings’
6. FIND “Check for newer versions of stored pages”
7. CLICK the button to the left of ‘Every visit to the page’
8. Click ‘OK’ until all open boxes are closed
Enable ‘cookies’ in your browser: CLICK Tools Æ Internet Options Æ Security Æ Custom
Level Æ Scroll to ‘Cookies’ Æ Enable
BJ Furman
ME120HW2S03.doc
01/29/03