Motivating Effective Peer Review With Extra Credit And Leaderboards

Peer review is a pedagogically sound practice that has found its way into education in all fields, including engineering. Students are often skeptical of its value, and don’t give it the attention it merits. We have implemented several facilities to address this need in our Expertiza peer-review system. Rubric-based review guides each student through the review process. Metareviewing is performed to assign scores to each reviewer’s reviews. Scores for reviewing can be factored into the student’s grade. Leaderboards allow students to see, with permission, who are the class leaders in categories such as submitted work and review quality. We are currently working on implementing an approach to awarding extra credit to reviewers for interacting with their authors more frequently than required.