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Assessment is one of the challenges facing higher education inside universities and it will be difficult to measure and monitor student's learning progress without a good assessment system. Today's students are digital natives, and visual learners, multi taskers, use technology to express themselves, information analysts, content producers, and real time learner's. Therefore, it is important to keep enhancing the recent assessment methods and tools in order to meet student’s new abilities. One of the most innovative assessments is Peer Assessment (PA), which is an assessment that allows students to judge the performance of their colleagues. PA is a new and popular strategy for evaluating assignments and for minimizing the social isolation surrounding distance education due to the changes of the learning strategies in Jordan. It can be done in different forms depending on the learning activity purposes. The paper aims to investigate the peer assessment implementation for final year engineering students in project-based subjects and discuss how peer assessment can successfully be executed in these subjects. It also focuses on the early implementation stages to make sure that students and teachers are aware of the aims and instruction of peer assessment. Unique challenges are facing Jordanian Universities with respect to peer assessment implementation. This paper will comprehensively address these challenges and propose solutions in employing the non-traditional pedagogical practices of collaborative group learning and peer assessment. In addition, hybrid peer assessment is introduced as the first stage toward fully applying peer assessment.
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