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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.
Watch the video to see Peer Review in action from student perspective.
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 the Peer Review tool work?
With Peer Review, instructors can organise a solid peer reviewing 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.
This means that the instructor’s focus can shift from organising to mentoring the peer review process. This is supported by transparent analytics, information on possible intervention moments and straight forward moderation.
This tool was designed with ease of use in mind. Therefore, depending on the teacher’s didactic method, it allows them to create various learning activities such as:
Read here how VU University Amsterdam enhanced peer feedback with Peer Review
Important pedagogical features
Hear from your colleagues
"With the tools of FeedbackFruits, our students collaborate more and learn from one another in different scenarios as they would in professional life." - Jeroen Prent (Education Manager from University of Appliced Sciences Amsterdam)
"Peer Review tool gave me back my weekends! Prior to FeedbackFruits, I used to spend hours setting up randomisation, sending link of individual files to students, collating feedback, and finally sending the feedback back to the students to reach the final round of reflections." - Dr. Kiran Ahuja (Senior Research Fellow from University of Tasmania)
Integration
All FeedbackFruits tools including Peer Review can be fully integrated with platforms such as Canvas, Blackboard, Brightspace, Moodle and Microsoft Teams.
With the integration, you can:
A bit of background…
The Peer Review tool is a result of a collaboration between partners from the Edtech Dotank, comprised of over 40 leading universities, such as MIT, TUDelft and HULT International Business School. All partners are united in their aim and dedication to accelerate the implementation of active, blended and online learning. The Dotank is facilitated by FeedbackFruits, as is the process of creating and distributing evidence-based learning activities and the digital means to support them.
More tools by the Edtech Dotank
In the Dotank we work with international universities that aim to speed up pedagogical innovation in higher education. Each of our tools are carefully designed by co-creating with instructors and students to support an ever-increasing number of learning activities.
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