Peer Review

Turnitin's unique, patent-pending Peer Review system lets instructors create customizable, flexible peer review assignments that students use as a framework to read, evaluate, and learn from each other's work. Peer Review features:

Peer to Peer Learning

Peer Review is widely regarded as a highly effective means for encouraging collaborative learning and improving student writing. Reading and carefully considering the work of peers gives students a new perspective on the research and writing concepts learned in class.

Valuable Feedback

While simply incorporating and practicing key lessons in their own work can bring great results, creating an atmosphere in which students are encouraged to evaluate the writing decisions made by others helps develop the critical thinking and editorial skills that translate into increased effectiveness in their own writing. Turnitin's Peer Review system makes it easy for you to create precise, custom peer review assignments that serve as frameworks to help target the acquisition of those skills most relevant for your class, school, or institution.

A Virtual Classroom

Educators have long recognized peer review's value as a pedagogical tool, but the time necessary to organize and supervise reviews in a traditional classroom setting has proved a barrier to its widespread adoption in most developmental writing program curricula.

The Internet has finally made it possible to make peer reviews practical on a large scale. By nature a collaborative environment, the Internet allows for the fluid and centralized information exchange necessary to help maximize peer review's potential as a learning tool.

Create Questions for each paper

Turnitin's Peer Review system is designed to provide maximum flexibility for the design and distribution of review assignments. Using our extensive libraries or by creating your own unique review criteria, you can design assignments comprised of any number of topic questions (answered in essay form) and metric questions (answered on a scale from one to five) that students use to give feedback to their peers.

Connect Anywhere

Because Peer Review is completely Web-based, participating students never have to worry about conflicts between varying software, computers, and operating systems.