The impact of peer-review on undergraduate grades when students decide whether to participate

Abstract

Feedback is at the heart of debates over student satisfaction and academic workload, an issue likely to increase in importance as the tertiary sector responds to the funding crisis sparked by the Covid-19 pandemic. In this light, the development of approaches to improve feedback is essential for teaching and learning, with many approaches involving some form of peer-review. Almost universally, peer-review is shown to be beneficial for participants, who recognize those benefits and appreciate the opportunity. Approaches to peer-review, though, presently involve extensive academic time and resources in the form of oversight, control, and analysis, suggesting a need to bridge resource-intensive..