We know how valuable peer review can be in the writing process. Peer review empowers students to become “mini teachers” in the classroom. Students reinforce their skills by evaluating peers’ writing, and they receive timely feedback on their own work that would be difficult for the teacher to do alone.
However, teachers don’t do peer review as frequently as they’d like. Despite all its benefits, peer review just isn’t that easy to implement in the classroom. Specifically, there are two big challenges:
- Many students don’t know how to provide constructive, actionable feedback.
- Facilitating peer review requires too much planning and classroom management.
With NoRedInk Peer Review, we’ve tackled these challenges to make peer review easier and more effective.
We provide strong scaffolding to ensure effective peer feedback
- Structured and focused feedback: Students review one specific section of their peers’ essays, answering questions about your chosen rubric criteria.
- Just-in-time support: Students can access detailed lessons and interactive tutorials about specific element they’re asked to review
We take care of the logistics, so you can focus on instruction.
- Peer matching: We automatically match students to a group of peers. Students are anonymous to each other, encouraging honest and constructive feedback.
- Monitoring tools: Our teacher dashboard gives you a live view of each student’s progress through the assignment.
- Side by-side comparison: We compare students’ original and revised writing to highlight improvements. You can also view peer feedback given and received by each student.
Click here to learn more about Peer Review, or assign one to your class now!