Assessing Student Peer Review |
Assessing Student Peer Review
Through peer review, your students will have the chance to evaluate each other's work
and to improve their own presentations. You may be wondering how to assess the peer review
process itself. It will probably be too cumbersome for you to keep track of all of the
comments that students provide to each other, so how can you be sure that the students
undertake peer review responsibly?
We suggest that you follow a stepwise progression in peer review, building gradually to the level of responsibility needed for anonymous peer review such as our online system. As one part of this progression, you may wish to assign students to answer questions such as the following:
An assignment such as this will allow you to gauge your students' understanding of peer review, and it will emphasize the importance of the responsibility they will be undertaking.
For assessment purposes, it may be too cumbersome for you to evaluate all the peer review comments that students provide. Instead, we suggest that you concentrate on how each student responds to the feedback he or she receives. For example, in their final research reports, each student could address questions such as these:
Peer Review Guidelines for Teachers
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