Since I'm planning my first online peer-review class, I thought to share it with you. I will highly appreciate your comments and suggestion on it. I'll be pleased to get some more ideas about how I can make the peer review class more effective for my students. Here is what I planned so far for my students.
My students are required to submit their rough draft and post a comment that explains what they need the most help with from their peer-review partner.
Peer-review instructions for my students:
Give line-by-line feedback to your peer's draft along with any issues the writer asks you to address.
Consider these questions below while peer-reviewing:
Furthermore, I'd like for you to look at the following:
After you and your partner have exchanged feedback, post a comment here that tells us what you will dedicate the most energy to during the revision process. You may choose from the following statements:
My students are required to submit their rough draft and post a comment that explains what they need the most help with from their peer-review partner.
Peer-review instructions for my students:
Give line-by-line feedback to your peer's draft along with any issues the writer asks you to address.
Consider these questions below while peer-reviewing:
- Who is the audience and what is the purpose of this piece of writing? Consider offering a suggestion if either the audience or purpose is not clearly established.
- What do you see as the writer’s main point in this draft?
- Which part of the draft interests you the most? Why?
- Where do you feel you would like more detail or explanation? Where do you need less?
- Do you find any parts unclear, confusing, or undeveloped? Mention those.
Furthermore, I'd like for you to look at the following:
- Consider the relationship between the introduction and the conclusion. Is the introduction giving you an overall idea about the essay and well enough to lead you through the paper? Is the conclusion summing up everything following the introduction?
- Ensure that all sources in the essay are in Works Cited/Reference page.
After you and your partner have exchanged feedback, post a comment here that tells us what you will dedicate the most energy to during the revision process. You may choose from the following statements:
- clarifying my argument
- reorganizing my essay
- tailoring my essay to my audience
- doing more research
- polishing my grammar, punctuation, and citation
Hello Nilimia!
ReplyDeleteI too am doing peer review this week and am a little worried about how it's going to work out. The questions I have for my students to address are very similar to the ones you have here. I especially like that you include that they begin thinking about how they will revise and what they want to focus on during that process.
For myself, I decided to manually assign them groups since a was concerned that they would not submit their drafts on time. A lot of them did not end up submitting their drafts on time as I had suspected and so I am slowly trying to add them or get them to submit their drafts so they don't miss out.
I know that some of them had some confusion about how to do peer review in Canvas so I found this tutorial that gives a bit information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wkgPvezGpX8 I am not sure quite how you are handling this aspect, but I am hoping this video will clear up some more of the confusion for them.
I also created discussion boards for each of the groups so that they could continue the conversation. I am hoping this could replace some of the in-class discussions they usually get to talk about comments and overall thoughts/troubleshooting on their drafts. It took a lot of time to create though, and I'm not sure how much they'll actually use it (though I have made this element worth some points).
I'm hoping it ends up working out....
Cassis,
DeleteIt's really hard to get students on track right now. I included a short lecture on peer-review stuff too. However, I lost some students for this particular activity. Actually I have been missing them in some other short assignments too. FIrst, I planned to do a synchronous class discussion before this peer-review session. But, it was actually impossible for most of my students to attend online on time. So, I had to leave that plan. However it went well to some extent but not as expected. However, I think right now I should drop my expectations to some extent.
Hi Nilima!
ReplyDeleteSo I just did my online peer-reviews and it went terrible! Even though they turned their drafts into me, I could not get them to trade with their peers. This caused frustration and upset across the board. That being said, I think that maybe mine went so terribly because I did not structure it as wholly as you have structured yours. Of course I gave them guidelines, but I think you do an awesome job here in giving them specific and clear things to look for, as well as offered them space to ask their own questions. You also have such an interesting after-prompt about how they will move forward. Awesome job!
I am really curious as to how you will be organizing this online. Email, discussion boards, etc. I did discussion boards with groups that I created. My only advice would be to watch carefully for those who do send their paper, but their partner does not. I had some students upset about this and had to redirect them to more functional groups, which forced that other group to work harder. Let us know how this goes!
-Sarah
Sarah,
DeleteI've been thinking about using the "peer-review" function on canvas for my peer-review. It's what Jennifer used for our blog comments; it's just a box that you click and it assigns students peer review partners for an assignment! But it won't assign people who haven't submitted drafts, so that might fix your problem/be an option for next time?
Sarah,
DeleteI used the peer-revie option on canvas. But I manually assigned a few students. As I wanted to get some students (more active) peer-review others who are less active and a little bit behind. So that they get some constructive feedback. However, it went well to some extent and for some, it didn't go well. As some of them didn't get peer-reviewed by their partners. For them I tried to give them some feedback. Which was sort of extra pressure for me . Even then I felt good afterwards. Because they all got some feedback at last.
Mow,
ReplyDeleteI LOVE how you include a dissection of the introduction and conclusion in your peer review. I feel as though often these sections are ignored when, in reality, they hold so much weight! I think it is an interesting choice to shy away from mentioning a thesis statement/main claim when speaking about the introduction, but perhaps this relieves some of the tensions students often harbor when going to write or examine their introduction. I think it is an interesting choice too, to correlate the conclusion with summary. I often approach conclusions with the dreaded “so what?” approach. In other words, yes, recap your main claims once more, but move beyond this level-1 approach as well. Tell me in your conclusion why reading your paper should impact my future reading of X, my future routine of X, my future anything! In other words, what have you contributed that shows a different perspective and where do I go from here? Props to you for doing peer review during E-learning. Maybe I should have had a little more faith in my students… haha
Great post!
-Kelli