Sunday, May 3, 2009
Peer Editing
This is an example of peer- editing in a 4th/ 5th grade classroom, which shows many of the features we have discussed in class. What aspects of the students' peer editing do you think are most helpful? Which could be improved upon? Overall, do you feel that this is effective in assisting the students with their revision processes?
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All reviewers had suggestions to make the writing better, and all the authors were receptive to those comments! Since they spend five minutes per paper, they both experience being the reviewer and the author. It’s great to see students successfully peer revising. The checklist keeps them on task, but it seemed like that was more of a guideline. One of the students kept making negative remarks—the teacher should model again how to make positive comments, suggest corrections (so the author maintains ownership), and show that it is not helpful to discourage the author with so many negative remarks. All the papers shown in this clip were improved through the peer editing revision process.
ReplyDeleteI think that peer reviewing is a very helpful way to get students to see where they are making mistakes. Like Jenn stated it is good for them to be both the reviewer and the author. But, the only thing that could go wrong is one studnet can correct a mistake on anothers paper and that correction could be wrong, further confusing the studnet. Otherwise I think it is a great idea!
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