peer review

Application with Peer Review: Creating Systems Diagrams

Peer Review

This “open feedback” process allows you to present rough drafts and review your colleagues’ work for inspiration, or to provide critical, supportive feedback. As such, it would be inappropriate to provide grades.

By Day 7, you should review your colleagues’ submissions and provide feedback to at least two colleagues that have yet to receive feedback from two students. In your response, include whether you think the diagram effectively documents the case and whether the loops are self-evident and whether the diagram captures cause and effect. Provide an example to support your position. If for some reason your submission has not been reviewed, please either seek out a colleague to review your work or utilize peer reviews of other posts to help enhance your final submission of your Systems Analysis Portfolio, due in Week 5.

Note that an exemplary Peer Review post demonstrates all of the following:

• Provides constructive, substantial, and meaningful input that is specific and directly related to the work-product of the colleague as it pertains to the assignment and weekly outcomes that will further assist your peer in developing his or her treatise
• Provides comments on organization, grammar, and proper APA formatting
• Remains professional in tone at all times

Note: Comments such as “Good Job” or “Interesting Project” may be made as encouragement but will not count for credit toward your peer review(s).

General Guidance on Peer Feedback Length: Feedback to a peer will typically be 1–2 paragraphs, and may also include revisions to the diagram itself.

Refer to the Systems Analysis Portfolio Individual Component and Peer Review Rubric found in the Course Information link for additional information. Your Instructor will use this rubric in assessing your peer review.

Return to the Discussion Board often after you post your diagram to review feedback given to you and your colleagues. Your Instructor will provide selective feedback in the forum—but not all students will receive feedback from the Instructor each week. The Instructor will guide the whole class by selecting and discussing certain examples among your peers that can help everyone else revise and improve their own work. Therefore, you must track and, if needed, respond to Instructor insights, questions, and feedback during the week, whether posted directly to you or not.

To conclude this week, take the feedback you received into consideration and use it to revise your diagram and summary. (Hint: It is highly recommended that make revisions as soon as possible and also review your work over the next few weeks in context of the feedback you received.)

Note: You will submit the final version of your diagram and summary as part of your Systems Analysis Portfolio on Day 3 of Week 5.

To complete your Assignment, click on Assignments on the course navigation menu, and select “Week 2 Peer Review Forum” to begin.