peer review

Peer Reviews

This week (June 17-23) is an opportunity for you to explore the resources that your peers created and provide some substantive feedback. The feedback that you provide will be used by the other group as they refine their Interactive Learning Resources next week, and it will be submitted to me as 10% of your final grade.

Your review will NOT be considered as part of your peers' grades.

· Please add a link to your resource in the column to the right of your group names.

· Each individual will review the resource created by the group immediately below them on the list.

· There are a couple of you working on your own. Please consider yourselves a part of group 5 with Cooper, so that Group 6 receives more than one review.

· In the end, each group will receive 3-4 reviews.

· The group at the bottom of the list on Tuesday morning will review Group 1's resource. This will ensure that people who may not be on the list yet have an opportunity to add their names.

Notes on Collegiality

Your task in this process is to help your colleagues improve their learning resources. Please ensure that you focus your feedback on the structure of their resource as related to each of the topics that we covered in class. Your task is not to criticize the content that your colleagues have chosen as their topic. This means that you don't need to be an expert in the content area of the resource in order to help your colleagues improve their resource.

A good way to ensure that you are being collegial is to ask questions in your review, like the following:

· Do you have an assessment linked to this outcome?

· Do you need to cite this idea?

· In what way is this activity interactive?

You can also use language that indicates that your criticism is tentative and may be a misunderstanding:

· It seems to me that...

· I might have missed something...

· Correct me if I'm wrong...

· Perhaps you might consider...

If English is your first language, don't feel that you need to correct every little detail of English grammar. Some of your colleagues are writing in their second or third language, or, as someone wrote earlier, they are learning their third language using their second language. This is not a course in English grammar and writing. If there is a section that really doesn't make sense, you can suggest that they seek assistance with making it more clear, but if the idea is communicated, even if a little awkwardly, then that is fine.

Interactive Learning Resource Peer Review (Individual)

By the end of Week 5 of the course, you will have substantially completed your Interactive Learning Resource as a draft and will have made it available for your colleagues in the class. During Week 6, each of you will act as beta testers for other groups' resources. You will work through the resource as a learner and make notes for the group who created the resource so that they may improve the design of their resource prior to submitting it at the end of Week 6.

Your notes and critique should focus on aspects of the resource that will be assessed (appropriate outcomes, alignment, interactivity, technology use and rationale, presentation, grammar, spelling, citations, etc) and it must be constructive. Do not simply say that 'X' is a pre-structural response; offer collegial suggestions for improvement.