Showing posts with label peer review. Show all posts
Showing posts with label peer review. Show all posts

Tuesday, June 30, 2009

The downside of encouraging peer feedback and critique?

As we've tried to scale student ePortfolio use in the classroom and encourage reflective thinking, there has been great interest in the idea of creating an environment where fellow classmates would be invited to offer feedback and critique on each other's work. Is there a downside to this? Read on...

Court fails Toronto professor’s grading on a budget
Emily Senger, National Post
Published: Thursday, June 18, 2009
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1710436


A University of Toronto professor who got students to grade their peers’ work has seen the practice blocked by the Ontario Superior Court of Justice.

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