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In the process of evaluating someone else’s work, we are engaged to ask ourselves questions about the work.

For example, if a student covered all the assigned questions in his/her work, if he/she provided examples, conclusions.

Was the correlations between assumptions and concussions are clear and not having any fallacies.

Were the statements clear and supported with arguments?

Were the arguments relevant?

And as we know, asking questions is the main part of practicing critical thinking.

Usually, peer assessment forms contain questions and criteria for the critic.

Unfortunately, sometimes not all of the aspects that need to be covered are actually covered there.

When one carefully reads and re-read someone else’s work several times he or she might notice other aspects of the work that are not a part of evaluating criteria.

For example, how well a paper is structured to comprehend it.

Luckily, the things that were noticed while evaluating a peer’s work apart from the assessment criteria, can be written in overall feedback.

The strategy I will definitely implement for the next peer assessments is that I will examine every paper on how well the student understands the material from reading on which the written paper is based.

If the student just paraphrased the material and didn’t provide any examples or conclusions, it does not mean that he/she knows how to apply the knowledge in real life or how to use the knowledge as a base for further learning.

I had assisted and was assisted by other peers by this point in time, and it’s still surprising to me how differently several peers evaluated my work based on the same criteria.

( Not in this course but on the other one that I’m currently taking).

Some of the peers even were disagreed about how many examples I have provided for a statement, one or many.

One peer, as I guess, didn’t bother him/herself about really assisting my paper because the weight for giving feedback and peer assessment grade is very small relative to the final course grade.

The peer just wrote ”well done” for every aspect and left the same overall feedback.

I hope the instructor keeps an eye on that kind of event and will somehow influence the course passing success of the student or his/her behavior.

at least it will be fair.

If the student doesn’t want to thoughtfully participate in activities and spend time reading and evaluating someone else’s works so why others should be interested in helping him to improve his writings.

Overall the other responses were meaningful and helped me to identify the strengths and weaknesses of my papers.