Strategy: Peer Review
Overview
Research has shown that peer feedback is especially helpful for the student giving the feedback. When peers are looking at other students work, they often report seeing the gaps in their own thinking, and then go back to their own work, revise, and improve.
Peer Review
Peer review and feedback helps everyone. Research has shown that peer feedback is especially helpful for the student giving the feedback. When peers are looking at other students work, they often report seeing the gaps in their own thinking, and then go back to their own work, revise, and improve. Peer review, when it is guided with key concepts and with asset-building sentence starters and frames, helps develop students' communication and evaluation skills as well.
- Provide checklist or rubric, expressed in student-friendly terms, for what you look for in scientific explanations.
- Have students “peer review” each others’ Claim, Evidence, and Reasoning that is in answer to a focus or essential question. Have them consider:
- What is something that they find helpful in the explanation?
- How clearly does the evidence and reasoning support the claim?
- Are you convinced? What could make this even more convincing to the reader?
- With a partner, brainstorm a way to use two science vocabulary words on the page.
- Give the feedback to the original author.
- Get feedback from peers!