CRITICAL PEER EVALUATION

Assignment Title: Critical Peer Evaluation of Web-based Presentations

Participation: Individual.

Due date: 18 April 2001.

Format: Formal two page critical review in APA final manuscript format.

Submission Method: Email to the course emailbox with the review attached as a MSWord document and post to the discussion board under the topic of the team reviewed.

Maximum points: 10.

Introduction: This assignment is intended to provide students experience of critical evaluation by evaluating the work of their peers in preparation for their monograph reviews. Since all students will have the experience in developing a power point presentation, it will be easier to critique the work of others form both a positive and negative viewpoint. The content of these critiques will NOT be used in the professors evaluation of the critiqued presentation.

Goals: The goals of this assignment are threefold:

• To gain experience preparing critical reviews answering such questions as:
  
  
  • How clearly and completely does the presentation describe the topic? Why or why not?
    
    
  • Can an educated lay person and/or new information professional follow the argument while receiving a useful introduction to the topic? Why or why not?
    
    
  • Does the presentation reflect good pedagogy? Why or why not?
    
    
  • Are the slides effectively designed and presented in a way calculated to help support the comprehension of the audience? How?
    
    
  • Do the sources appear useful and clearly explained? Why or why not?
    
    
  • What elements of the topic are not included that you believe should be? Why?
    
    
  • In what specific ways might the group improve the presentation, whether with regard to clarity, breadth, depth, citations, or other elements of the presentation?
    
    
• To receive feed back on ones own work by mentally comparing it with the work of others as the evaluation is completed.
  
  
• To help understand and accept critical feedback as constructive, critiquing the work rather rather than the author.
  
  
• It is NOT a goal of this assignment to help the professor judge the critiqued presentations. Rather the critiques will be judged an how well they reflect the quality of the presentations evaluated.
  

Tasks:

1. Write a critical review of your colleagues Web presentation addressing the above questions in approximately two pages. Your review should be specific, have examples, and cite any standards you used.
   
   
2. E-mail your essay to the course emailbox as a MSWord attachment.
   
   
3. Post the paper to the class discussion board under the topic for the Web presentation team. Change to single space and use copy and paste rather than posting as an attachment.