The Theory and Practice of Peer Feedback

Peer assessment can take many forms that can vary depending on the learning goals, the disciplinary or curricular context, and available technologies. Peer assessment is often characterized as taking either a formative or summative approach.

A collection of sample student-facing peer review assignment descriptions, instructions, and feedback forms from faculty at UW-Madison.

This 17-minute video explores some principles and practices for providing effective feedback on academic writing. This could be used for discussion in student writing groups, or as a reference point for more formal review and feedback, as in the journal refereeing process.

An essay about peer feedback’s potential as an equity-minded, rather than a deficit-focused formative assessment process.

In this essay that describes a “queer approach” to peer review in the classroom, the author argues that the goal of most peer review (continuous improvement) is a form of what Lauren Berland calls “cruel optimism” and proposes “slow peer review” as an alternative practice that opens up new anti-normative possibilities.