Deep Learning through Peer Review with

© 2019 Tracy L. Norton

Roadmap

• Assumptions in the interest of time

• Peerceptiv

• Creating the assignment offline

• Creating the assignment online

• Student experience online and offline

Assumptions by show of hands• Online education works. (Cloud LearningTM)

• Hybrid education works. (Cloud and Ground LearningTM)

• You can do things in the cloud that you can’t do on the ground.

• Writing facilitates deep learning in any course.

• Student don’t do enough writing in law school.

• Well-crafted peer review is valuable for students who review and for students who are reviewed.

• Math is true whether you understand it or not.

Peerceptiv• Research-validated statistically reliable peer review platform

• Process• Authors upload a document anonymously.

• Reviewers evaluate four peers’ submissions using a provided rubric on which they are trained.

• Authors evaluate their reviews for helpfulness.

• Grade (variable percentages)• Writing grade (Norton set 20-30%)

• Reviewing grade (Norton set 50-60%)

• Task grade

Peerceptiv in Cloud/Ground Courses

• Works in all three (cloud, ground, cloud/ground)

• Takes peer review out of the classroom, where time is limited.

• Allows students to complete an assignment that requires several steps close in time.

• Gives students feedback between class meetings.

• Can be administered as a blended assessment or a single-location assessment (training on the ground or in the cloud).

Creating the assignment offline

• You’ll need:• Writing prompt

• Model answer or guideline for an answer

• Rubric

• Peerceptiv account

• List of students with email addresses (optional)

Creating the assignment online

Creating the assignment online

Creating the assignment online

Creating the assignment online

Creating the assignment online

Creating the assignment online

Student experience on the ground

• Introduce Peerceptiv and get buy-in.

• Do a Peerceptiv demo.

• Go through the assignment with them.

• Give them a sample assignment with sample good/bad reviews.

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Student experience in the cloud

Results after two years (anecdotal)

• Students’ skills are comparable between FTD and Flex.

• Students’ skills exceed FTD students without Peerceptiv.

• Student resistance falls away after the first couple of assignments.

• You get better mileage with multiple professor use.

Join the HybridJDs listserv to discuss!

Questions?tnorton@tourolaw.edu