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A devoted practitioner of Peer Review myself, I have found that students grow into the process. The more intelligent appear to latch onto it almost immediately, provided they are matched with students of similar intellectual prowess. As Robert Bly predicted in his book of the same name, we do live in a Sibling Society (p. ix).

"Holistic Grading" involves looking at the paper as an entire document instead of distinguishing content from form. For peer review, the students are given a Evaluating Assessment on Student Learning 4

rubric based on the numbers 1 through 8, with the higher numbers indicating greater strengths and the lower numbers indicating lack of strengths -- number 4 represents the "average" grade (C+). The grid looks something like this:

Peer graders are encouraged to make comments and to stress at least one or two specific strengths in the paper, as well as any area(s)...
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