Peer evaluation

Your short project will consist of a 4-5 page paper analyzing a topic that I assign. In addition to comments I make on those papers, three of your peers will also provide their written evaluation of the paper, and we will discuss the papers and the evaluations in class. I will provide an evaluation template. You will receive a copy of the evaluations your paper receives, and I will return my assessment of your evaluations to each of you individually. Ten percent of your course grade will be based on the quality of your peer evaluations. Everything except my evaluations will be done anonymously (see the logistics section below for details).

Important: Since your peers can't evaluate a paper they haven't received and we can't discuss evaluations in class unless you've finished them, that means (a) you have to turn your project papers in no later than 3:00pm on the date it is due (earlier is better) and (b) you have to turn in your written peer evaluation by 9:00am on the date when we hold the class discussion. Here are the dates when papers are due and the dates when in-class discussion of the papers and evaluations will be held.

	Project due date	In-class discussion
Project #1	26 September	3 October
Project #2	26 October	2 November
Project #3	14 November	30 November

Logistics

• E-mail your project paper to me no later than 3:00pm on the date that it is due.
• I will remove identifying information from it and send it to three of your peers.
• E-mail me your evaluation of the papers you received no later than 9:00am on the date it is due.
I will remove any identifying information and send your evaluations and my comments to each of you.
• I will send each of you brief comments on your evaluations.

Rubric
Please use the peer assessment rubric(Peer-Assessment-Rubric.docx) to prepare your assessments. The version here is in Microsoft Word 2007/2008 format. If you need a copy in a different format, let me know.