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What is Peer Review?

The pedagogical tool Peer Review enables instructors to create assignments for students to provide feedback to their peers on deliverables.

Why is Peer Review useful for learning?

Peer Review can improve the final version of a report, or alternatively, make students more aware of their skills. Research revealed that students regard the feedback from their teacher as absolute truth while feedback from peers creates doubt, which activates students to think critically about their work (Sadler and Good 2006, 23-28). In consequence, students’ self-knowledge, as well as other skills (e.g., coaching, cooperation, debate), are improved.

How does Peer Review work?

With Peer Review, instructors can organize a solid peer review process from beginning to end by allowing students to upload deliverables for their peers to review. The instructor can add specific instructions, deadlines, as well as review criteria (rubrics or scales) which will guide students throughout the reviewing process. The distribution ensures that students who provide feedback will also have their reports reviewed.

Important pedagogical features

• Extensive collaboration options: review individually, as a group, outside of their group, or within groups
• Customizable rubrics and criteria options: rubric, scale rating, comment criterion, or combined
• Reviewer and submitter anonymity
• Configurable grading