Your guide to providing outstanding peer evaluations
Written by Carine Marette
Updated over a week ago
Overview:
The Evaluation stage is where things get interesting in Kritik. In this stage of your activity, you will be assigned a set of peer creations to evaluate. The goal here is to put yourself in the shoes of your professor or TA and to try and evaluate your peers as fairly and accurately as possible. Your evaluations are broken down into two parts: grading and written evaluations.
How to evaluate your peers short video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Wz7nPcjoS0
Note: Evaluations are done anonymously. You will not see who you are evaluating, and your peer will not know who evaluated them.
For rubric evaluations, carefully follow the descriptions provided in the rubric cells when giving points. In the comment section, refer to criteria done well within the rubric and include important things that your peers could do to improve, but also remember to mention any great things about their work to reinforce those actions. Make your points clear and actionable and if possible, provide specific examples.
It is important to remember that the creator rates evaluations according to how motivational and critical they are. If you simply say “good job” it is not very motivational and even less helpful. Students should justify the scores they give and be specific about the strengths and weaknesses of the creation they are evaluating.
It is crucially important to keep a positive and constructive tone and avoid using words that may demotivate or offend your peers. The point of your written evaluation is to give your peer a sense of what they are doing right and where they can improve. After reading your evaluations, your peers should feel motivated and have a good sense of direction moving forward for future assignments.
The RISE feedback model is a useful tool to guide you with your evaluations:
Source: http://blog.bristolcc.edu/techlearning/2016/10/13/rise-model-for-meaningful-feedback/