Peer Evaluation

The following article breaks down various methods/tips for creating peer-evaluation assessments. Brock’s Brightspace has limited peer evaluation functionality, with room for instructors to get creative with implementation.

If the options/tips below do not provide what the instructor is looking for, please feel free to reach out to cpi@brocku.ca, we would be happy to discuss alternatives.

• Mention third-party platforms like Critik

  • Talk to Erin Panda/ Sean beaudette(?)

  • Sean uses Critik in a large class to facilitate marking (takes students' grades into account when marking, he relies on the students to grade each other DO NOT MENTION IN ARTICLE)

• What you’re using peer eval for will inform the choices that you’re making

  • Is the peer eval to supplement marking? Or is it to teach students practices and methods that can be gained from peer evaluation?

Peer Evaluation and Pedagogy

Reach out to CPI if you don’t know what you’re doing, we’d love to help. After you have established the pedagogical reason behind engaging in a peer evaluation process, then you can choose from the options below for a method that best suits your intended practice.

Brightspace Discussions

There are a few way to use discussions (link to discussions article for general basic building)

If setting up Discussions for submissions, think file vs text (does it matter) (if it’s an attachment, add a bit of a description for that, or make student documentation explaining how to attach a file to a discussion post)

Assignments would come in handy as a way of grading the original submission, while grading the posts can be left to the peer eval responses.

In tandem with Microsoft apps (focus on forms) or in assignments

Assignments - Submit to assignments for grade, submit to discussions for peer-eval

When it comes to grading, it would be best handled if the submission and the evaluation are separate grades, submission through assignments, then evaluation through discussions or Microsoft forms or what have you or whatever.

Are we evaluating the evaluation? Or is it just meant for student discussion and learning?

Third Party Tools

Critik - link Critik documentation (students have to subscribe and pay for it, link to Critik pricing)

Reach out to CPI if you wanna talk with someone who’s used it

• Link to external tools documentation

In-Person Peer Evaluation

Could always do physical hand-offs of hard copies during a class. This would of course depend on the size of the class and whatever