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Subject: One person's view of why these cases belong together

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Steve Draper
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25/05/2007 15:44  
Many innovative educators believe that promoting peer feedback is beneficial for reasons including increasing the amount of feedback each learner receives when teacher time is fixed, getting an alternative perspective on learner work, and the benefits to learners of having to use their knowledge in a new way by generating feedback to others. Against that is the commonsense objection of many learners and teachers: how can a learner give feedback when they don't have a reliable understanding of the material themselves. My suggestion here is that peer feedback may only be accepted when it is somehow "grounded" on a small but essential amount of teacher validation. In the case presented by Pryor&Crossouard, feedback from peers was interspersed in a complex plan with feedback from the course leader; but there is an impression that the value of the teacher feedback reduced the value perceived by students in the peer feedback. In the case by Bates, the peer discussion takes place mainly during a 3 hour workshop, with staff available for consultation (to settle disputed points). Other case studies are also relevant here. Taylor's case follows written self and peer feedback with 10 minutes' worth of one-on-one feedback from a staff member. In the Baxter study, students can judge their own (and their group's) work against work selected and personally commended by the course leader. The class wide discussion forum is also sometimes used to get the course leader to settle points not otherwise resolved, and even more to generate a feeling that everyone's work is "overseen" by the teacher when necessary. In Sharp's case, the out of class student discussions lead to making an in-class presentation which is then commented on in detail by the course leader.
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