Peer Review With a Rubric

Description

Verb 

Review

Place in the Hybrid Sequence 

• Prepare for Class 
• ✔️In-Class 
• After Class 

Template 

1. Listen to a presentation on a topic. 
2. Revise documents in pairs to comply with [industry or discipline] principles. 
3. Conduct peer review of revised document using a rubric. 
4. Revise peer reviewed document based on a self-assessment and your partner’s feedback and submit to a Canvas Assignment. 

Example 

Questions from Terry Myers Zawacki, George Mason University  

Adapted from Dr. Stephanie Foster at CU Boulder 

1. Students receive a faculty-provided rubric to assess a short paper.  
2. Students conduct a review their own paper based on that rubric.  
3. Students pair up and exchange drafts of their short paper. 
4. Students review specific questions to guide their review, such as:   
   1. What’s the writer’s main claim or focus?
   2. What two big questions do you have about the writer’s argument?
   3. What is the most interesting part of the draft?
   4. What part of the draft is clearest and/or most effective?
   5. What suggestions do you have for revising the unclear parts?
5. Students then read, annotate, and provide answers to some questions above.  
6. Students receive their paper's back after peer review and discuss their findings.  
7. Students compare their self-assessment and their peer's assessment and determine changes to be made before submitting a draft to the instructor. 

Reference 

Using Rubrics for Peer Review. (2021, March 18). Center for Teaching & Learning.

https://www.colorado.edu/center/teaching-learning/teaching-resources/assessment/assessing-student-learning/rubrics/using-rubrics-peer-review