Peer Evaluation for Final Projects

[ha0ye]

To help make sure the final projects are on track and that students have experience providing feedback to each other, I wonder if it would be useful to include a component to the final project where another group goes through your project and does some preliminary evaluation, say, a week before presentations.

This could help mitigate procrastination, give feedback to groups before presentation (and review the grading requirements for them), and also get students used to doing peer evaluations and giving feedback.

[mine-cetinkaya-rundel]

This is a good question. I think peer review at that stage can both be very useful (for both parties) and somewhat frustrating to manage (how do you evaluate the review?). But I agree in general. I'd love to see a sample form if you've done this before.

[ha0ye]

I haven't done anything like this before, but I think I'd try to follow some general principles for feedback:

• have categories that match those for the final grading rubric for projects
• have designated spaces for positive feedback and suggested improvements (with short examples)
• encourage additional feedback, but emphasize it's unnecessary (maybe this could be extra credit - to work on new ideas together?)

As for evaluating the review, just a simple check that all the boxes were ticked. I'd love to see a sample form from you if you go this route! 😄