Assessment Using Peer Review

What is Peer Review?

Peer review is having students review each other's written work and oral presentations.

For in depth information and step-by-step guide, including sample peer review questions and guidelines for students see Peer Review from the Starting Point site.

Calibrated Peer Review (CPR)™ (CPR) (more info) is a web-based writing and peer review tool free to instructors and their classes. Students write short essays, submit the essays online, read and assign a score to three other "calibration" essays. Students read and score three anonymous peer essays as well as their own essay.

Geoscience Examples

• See Examples from Introductory Geoscience Courses. The Starting Point site includes numerous examples from introductory courses.
• The Environmental Assessment Course example uses peer review of student presentations.

Additional Resources

• Browse Additional Information about Peer Review Search our collection for information about peer review from websites and articles.
• Additional Resources from the Peer Review Starting Point Site. See a list of additional resources about peer review.
• Activities Using Peer Review Search our collection of teaching activities that use peer review as a teaching technique. This link will take you to a list of activities that can be browsed or searched by topic.