Blog 14 - Catlin Tucker's Blog
This week Dr. Tucker writes about the importance of feedback, and suggests facilitating the process for students to give each other feedback. In order for students to be able to give feedback, they need to have specific guidelines and be able to be focused. Dr. Tucker offers three ideas of ways to make sure peer feedback is meaningful.
First, of course, there is a choice board for peer feedback. Dr. Tucker always has great ideas for choice boards. In this case, she has prepared and shared examples of feedback ideas for a first draft of an assignment or paper. If working with younger students, she suggests writing fill-in-the-blank sentences. This way students are still offered choice but the activity is scaffolded so that a younger student can still give applicable feedback.
The second possible way for students to give feedback is to use a checklist, which Dr. Tucker has also created an example of. Using this checklist, peer reviewers will be able to identify a certain area for their classmate to focus on when editing or further developing their assignment. We all know that sometimes, it is easier for someone else to identify a deficiency rather than for us to realize it on our own.
A third way for students to provide feedback for each other is to give them a modified rubric similar to what their rubric looks like for the assignment. Add a column where students could add a short explanation about how they rated their peer's work. This will be a good way for students to familiarize themselves with the rubric and perhaps even reflect on their own work.
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