Teaching Resources

This page contains several resources that may be helpful when incorporating student peer review into your course or subject.

Academic guide to student peer review

This guide is designed for teaching staff interested in implementing peer review into their course or subject. The guide introduces readers to the concept of peer review by detailing:

• The mechanics of peer review – including guidelines for planning how to incorporate peer review; training students; designing review and feedback forms; and common issues and pitfalls.
• Case studies describing the use of peer review in a range of disciplines.
• A range of resources including information about online peer review tools such as PRAZE; examples review and feedback forms, and student questionnaires; as well as other online resources and literary publications.

Download: Guide to student peer review (PDF 400kB)

“Involving students in peer review” booklet

This booklet was developed by the student peer review project team, and includes:

• Introduction to student peer review
• A concise review of the literature
• Detailed case studies where student peer review has been used
• Reflections on implementing student peer review, including survey results
• Using online tools to manage student peer review
• Additional references and resources

Download: “Involving students in peer review” (PDF 3.8 MB)

Introduction to peer review tutorial

This is a template PowerPoint that you can adapt and use when designing an introductory tutorial on student peer review. It covers:

• What is peer review, and how does it work?
• Benefits of using peer review
• Guidelines for writing a review
• Guidelines for receiving feedback
• Guidelines for responding to reviewers

This template has been designed so that you can tailor it to suit your needs, and has the flexibility to allow you to include details of your specific assignment/peer review task.

Download: Tutorial template (PPT 491 kB)

Student handout

This one-page student handout contains general information about student peer review; guidelines about writing and receiving review; and some common questions.

Download: Student handout – colour (PDF 186 kB)
Student handout – colour (DOCX 133 kB)
Student handout – black & white (PDF 119 kB)
Student handout – black & white (DOCX 127 kB)

Review examples

This document contains examples drawn from real reviews written by students. Each example contains two reviews of the same piece of work, and shows several of the differences between helpful and unhelpful reviews.

Download: Review examples (DOCX 110 kB)

Review form examples