This collection contains resources to guide you in developing and implementing effective peer review assignments.
Peer assessment can take many forms that can vary depending on the learning goals, the disciplinary or curricular context, and available technologies. Peer assessment is often characterized as taking either a formative or summative approach.
A brief and accessible overview of the “why” and “how” of peer feedback developed by the University of British Columbia.
A collection of sample student-facing peer review assignment descriptions, instructions, and feedback forms from faculty at UW-Madison.
A collection of sample student-facing peer review assignment descriptions, instructions, and feedback forms from faculty at UW-Madison.
This 17-minute video explores some principles and practices for providing effective feedback on academic writing. This could be used for discussion in student writing groups, or as a reference point for more formal review and feedback, as in the journal refereeing process.
A 17-minute video presentation with specific, step-by-step guidance for peer reviewers emphasizes the importance of giving feedback tailored to help the author achieve their own writing goals, rather than the reviewers.
An essay about peer feedback’s potential as an equity-minded, rather than a deficit-focused formative assessment process.
An essay about peer feedback’s potential as an equity-minded, rather than a deficit-focused formative assessment process.
In this essay that describes a “queer approach” to peer review in the classroom, the author argues that the goal of most peer review (continuous improvement) is a form of what Lauren Berland calls “cruel optimism” and proposes “slow peer review” as an alternative practice that opens up new anti-normative possibilities.
In this essay that describes a “queer approach” to peer review in the classroom, the author argues that the goal of most peer review (continuous improvement) is a form of what Lauren Berland calls “cruel optimism” and proposes “slow peer review” as an alternative practice that opens up new anti-normative possibilities.
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