Paper Info
Title
Growing a Peer Review Culture among Graduate Students
Abstract
Usual processes for pursuing education excellence in a graduate program are candidate selection, coursework, research, and thesis defense. This paper is an experience report on a complementary approach: the growing of a peer review culture among graduate students. We instruct first-year masters and doctoral students on principles for preparing a thesis proposal. Students present their proposals in collective discussion sessions with feedback from professors. The students then submit their proposals through a web interface and are instructed on the role they will play next – of anonymous referees of their peers’ proposals. The referee reports and general statistics are made available to all participating students and advisers. Updated proposals are submitted to an annual workshop open to all participating students and advisers. About 60 students take part in this annual series of seminars with peer review and workshop, generating individual thesis proposals and 180 referee reports, 3 for each proposal. Students and their advisers receive detailed feedback on individual participation as author and referee. The main strength of this experience is the opportunity to assimilate the techniques of objective criticism and to reflect about the quality of own and others’ work. The paper outlines future research and development issues.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-03115-1_41
WCCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
knowledge society,assessment,research,culture,higher education.,web interface,higher education
Criticism,Pedagogy,User interface,Medicine,Coursework,Excellence,Higher education,Knowledge society
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.39
11
Authors
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vinícius Medina Kern182.64
Osmar Possamai291.97
Paulo Mauricio Selig310.39
Roberto Carlos Dos Santos Pacheco482.71
Gilberto Corrêa De Souza510.39
Sandro Rautenberg662.91
Renata Tavares Da Silva Lemos710.39