Peer Review
Provide students an opportunity to evaluate their peers’ argument while improving the quality of their work.
Why Create this Learning Experience
To achieve outcomes, students can learn from their peers in addition to the content. This technique encourages students to become both the creator and evaluator. Using this activity, students can practice soft skills such as time management, communication, and critical thinking.
To foster an interactive and engaging activity be sure to clearly articulate the expectations and establish parameters within the prompt. See the additional considerations on how to appropriately use this activity.
Prompt
Assessment Type: Graded
Recommended Learning Tool: Discussion Forum or Assignment
Learning Domain: A robust online course will incorporate a variety of learning domains to support students’ achievement of the course outcomes. This activity is best suited for a Mid cognitive function.
If you are actively collaborating with a designer, please direct them to this resource if you are interested in utilizing this learning experience. It can be applied or adapted to your online course.
Additional Considerations
Consider the following recommendations to execute this activity effectively:
- Advertise this activity early in the semester. Give students ample time to prepare and complete this activity. When possible, provide students with advance notice that this activity will be taking place.
- Clearly articulate activity instructions and expectations, such as purpose, context, collaboration methods, submission format, deadlines, netiquette, model submission examples.
- Consider a rubric to provide students with directions and how their submission(s) will be evaluated.