Innovations in Online Learning » formative assessment http://commons.esc.edu/cdl-course-highlights Curriculum and Instructional Design Highlights from the Center for Distance Learning Tue, 08 Jan 2013 23:34:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 Curriculum and Instructional Design Highlights from the Center for Distance Learning Innovations in Online Learning no Curriculum and Instructional Design Highlights from the Center for Distance Learning Innovations in Online Learning » formative assessment http://commons.esc.edu/cdl-course-highlights/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/rss_default.jpg http://commons.esc.edu/cdl-course-highlights The Power of Peer Critique! http://commons.esc.edu/cdl-course-highlights/the-power-of-peer-critique/ http://commons.esc.edu/cdl-course-highlights/the-power-of-peer-critique/#comments Wed, 13 Apr 2011 14:55:14 +0000 sonja thomson http://commons.esc.edu/cdl-course-highlights/?p=1306 Screenshot of Peer Critique InstructionsThroughout the Digital Art and Design course, students are asked to publicly share their art design work via the use of blogs. Peers use discussion threads to critique their peer’s art designs while the instructor monitors to ensure that communication is respectful, relevant, and useful. Peer critique is an interactive, formative and dynamic process that inspires enhanced performance in an authentic setting.

For peer feedback to be an effective instructional strategy, the instructor should supply clear deadlines, a rubric/guidelines, a sample critique, and course credit or incentives for peer reviewers. If peer feedback and critique are embedded throughout the course, it is not viewed as an activity but as a necessary step in the process of creating quality work.

Peer feedback allows for gaining insight from multiple perspectives, while the public posting allows for self reflection;  Students see the differences in their quality of work, which in turns helps them calibrate superior performance in the class and model top performance.

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