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Presentation Peer Feedback Form

A presentation peer feedback form is used by students to give feedback on presentations that their peers have created in the classroom. Whether you teach high school, college, or university, give your students the opportunity to give each other constructive criticism. Collect effective feedback for presentations with a free Presentation Peer Feedback Form. Just customize the form template, embed it on your website, and watch as submissions are automatically sent straight to your Jotform account.

Every presentation is different, so customize your Presentation Peer Feedback Form by changing fonts, colors, and backgrounds with our easy-to-use Form Builder. If you’d like to send responses to your other accounts — such as Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, or Airtable — do it automatically with Jotform’s 100+ free integrations. You can even analyze feedback results with Jotform Tables or Jotform Report Builder! Make the most of your classroom with a free Presentation Peer Feedback Form.

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Peer Evaluation

A Peer Evaluation form is a form template designed to streamline the process of collecting feedback and evaluations from peers in the workplace. With this peer feedback form, Human Resources departments can eliminate paperwork and gather all evaluations online. The form includes questions about feedback for success in the job, the person's strengths and weaknesses, and their ability to collaborate with other team members. This form is essential for HR professionals looking to gather comprehensive feedback on employees' performance and foster a culture of continuous improvement within the organization.Jotform, a user-friendly and drag-and-drop online form builder, provides a seamless experience for creating and customizing the Peer Evaluation form. With Jotform's extensive field options and widgets, HR professionals can easily tailor the form to their specific requirements. Additionally, Jotform offers integration capabilities with popular apps and services like Google Drive, Salesforce, and Dropbox, allowing for seamless data transfer and automation. The platform also provides the Jotform Sign feature, which enables users to collect electronic signatures on forms and documents, ensuring enhanced security and compliance. With Jotform's ease of use, ease of -customization, and ease of -collecting e-signatures, HR professionals can streamline their evaluation processes and make more informed decisions based on comprehensive feedback.

Presentation Feedback Template

Whether you just gave a presentation or were a viewer at a seminar, a presentation feedback form is a great way to collect constructive feedback. Customize the presentation feedback form template to include the presenters name, commentary fields and grading rubrics. Additionally, presentation feedback templates have access to Jotform's collection of themes, apps, and widgets to help user engagement. Use our presentation feedback form sample as a guide for creating your own, customizing it to fit your needs.

Student Peer Evaluation Form

A student peer evaluation form is a tool used by teachers to collect feedback about students from their peers. Whether you teach at a middle school, high school, or college, collect peer evaluations from your students with a free Student Peer Evaluation Form! Embed this form in your online class website, or share it with students to complete with a link to keep communication between you and your students fast and easy. You can easily customize this form to match your classroom and grading scheme.You can even add questions, edit the layout, or choose a new background image, making your Student Peer Evaluation Form match your needs exactly. Integrate with online storage services like Google Drive or Dropbox to make the most of your data. You can even send students’ evaluations and others’ submissions to CRM platforms like Salesforce (also available on Salesforce AppExchange). Save yourself time and effort by using a free Student Peer Evaluation Form to get peer evaluations from your students.

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A sample form for use by students when they are observing other students’ class presentations, focusing on constructive suggestions for improvement.

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Roles during practice presentations

• Content - Provide feedback on the content of the presentation
• Presentation Skills - Observe and provide feedback on presentation skills and slide design
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• Optimist - I love the idea that..., I really liked how you...
• Innovator - What if...? Did you consider the idea to...?
• Analyst - How does this part work...? Can you explain more...?
• Pessimist - This part seems infeasible because..., How will you overcome the challenge of...?

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Effective Feedback for Presentations - digital with PowerPoint or with printable sheets

10.26.20   •  #powerpoint #feedback #presentation.

Do you know whether you are a good presenter or not? If you do, chances are it's because people have told you so - they've given you feedback. Getting other's opinions about your performance is something that's important for most aspects in life, especially professionally. However, today we're focusing on a specific aspect, which is (as you may have guessed from the title): presentations.

The importance of feedback

Take a minute to think about the first presentation you've given: what was it like? Was it perfect? Probably not. Practise makes perfect, and nobody does everything right in the beginning. Even if you're a natural at speaking and presenting, there is usually something to improve and to work on. And this is where feedback comes in - because how are you going to know what it is that you should improve? You can and should of course assess yourself after each and every presentation you give, as that is an important part of learning and improvement. The problem is that you yourself are not aware of all the things that you do well (or wrong) during your presentation. But your audience is! And that's why you should get audience feedback.

Qualities of good Feedback

Before we get into the different ways of how you can get feedback from your audience, let's briefly discuss what makes good feedback. P.S.: These do not just apply for presentations, but for any kind of feedback.

• Good feedback is constructive, not destructive. The person receiving feedback should feel empowered and inspired to work on their skills, not discouraged. You can of course criticize on an objective level, but mean and insulting comments have to be kept to yourself.
• Good feedback involves saying bot what has to be improved (if there is anything) and what is already good (there is almost always something!)
• After receiving good feedback, the recipient is aware of the steps he can and should take in order to improve.

Ways of receiving / giving Feedback after a Presentation

1. print a feedback form.

Let's start with a classic: the feedback / evaluation sheet. It contains several questions, these can be either open (aka "What did you like about the presentation?") or answered on a scale (e.g. from "strongly disagree" to "strongly agree"). The second question format makes a lot of sense if you have a large audience, and it also makes it easy to get an overview of the results. That's why in our feedback forms (which you can download at the end of this post), you'll find mainly statements with scales. This has been a proven way for getting and giving valuable feedback efficiently for years. We do like the feedback form a lot, though you have to be aware that you'll need to invest some time to prepare, count up and analyse.

• ask specifically what you want to ask
• good overview of the results
• anonymous (people are likely to be more honest)
• easy to access: you can just download a feedback sheet online (ours, for example, which you'll find at the end of this blog post!)
• analysing the results can be time-consuming
• you have to print out the sheets, it takes preparation

2. Online: Get digital Feedback

In the year 2020, there's got to be a better way of giving feedback, right? There is, and you should definitely try it out! SlideLizard is a free PowerPoint extension that allows you to get your audience's feedback in the quickest and easiest way possible. You can of course customize the feedback question form to your specific needs and make sure you get exactly the kind of feedback you need. Click here to download SlideLizard right now, or scroll down to read some more about the tool.

• quick and easy to access
• easy and fast export, analysis and overview of feedback
• save feedback directly on your computer
• Participants need a working Internet connection (but that usually isn't a problem nowadays)

3. Verbal Feedback

"So, how did you like the presentation?", asks the lecturer. A few people in the audience nod friendly, one or two might even say something about how the slides were nice and the content interesting. Getting verbal feedback is hard, especially in big groups. If you really want to analyse and improve your presentation habits and skills, we recommend using one of the other methods. However, if you have no internet connection and forgot to bring your feedback sheets, asking for verbal feedback is still better than nothing.

• no prerequisites
• open format
• okay for small audiences
• not anonymous (people might not be honest)
• time consuming
• no detailed evaluation
• no way to save the feedback (except for your memory)
• not suitable for big audiences

Feedback to yourself - Self Assessment

I've mentioned before that it is incredibly important to not only let others tell you what went well and what didn't in your presentation. Your own impressions are of huge value, too. After each presentation you give, ask yourself the following questions (or better yet, write your answers down!):

• What went wrong (in my opinion)? What can I do in order to avoid this from happening next time?
• What went well? What was well received by the audience? What should I do more of?
• How was I feeling during this presentation? (Nervous? Confident? ...)

Tip: If you really want to actively work on your presentation skills, filming yourself while presenting and analysing the video after is a great way to go. You'll get a different view on the way you talk, move, and come across.

Digital Feedback with SlideLizard

Were you intrigued by the idea of easy Online-feedback? With SlideLizard your attendees can easily give you feedback directly with their Smartphone. After the presentation you can analyze the result in detail.

• type in your own feedback questions
• choose your rating scale: 1-5 points, 1-6 points, 1-5 stars or 1-6 stars;
• show your attendees an open text field and let them enter any text they want

Note: SlideLizard is amazing for giving and receiving feedback, but it's definitely not the only thing it's great for. Once you download the extension, you get access to the most amazing tools - most importantly, live polls and quizzes, live Q&A sessions, attendee note taking, content and slide sharing, and presentation analytics. And the best thing about all this? You can get it for free, and it is really easy to use, as it is directly integrated in PowerPoint! Click here to discover more about SlideLizard.

Free Download: Printable Feedback Sheets for Business or School Presentations

If you'd rather stick with the good old paper-and-pen method, that's okay, too. You can choose between one of our two feedback sheet templates: there is one tailored to business presentations and seminars, and one that is created specifically for teachers assessing their students. Both forms can be downloaded as a Word, Excel, or pdf file. A lot of thought has gone into both of the forms, so you can benefit as much as possible; however, if you feel like you need to change some questions in order to better suit your needs, feel free to do so!

Feedback form for business

Template as PDF, Word & Excel - perfect for seminars, trainings,...

Feedback form for teachers (school or university)

Template as PDF, Word & Excel - perfect for school or university,...

Where can I find a free feedback form for presentations?

There are many templates available online. We designed two exclusive, free-to-download feedback sheets, which you can get in our blog article

What's the best way to get feedback for presentations?

You can get feedback on your presentations by using feedback sheets, asking for feedback verbally, or, the easiest and fastest option: get digital feedback with an online tool

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Peer Review

About this Strategy Guide

This strategy guide explains how you can employ peer review in your classroom, guiding students as they offer each other constructive feedback to improve their writing and communication skills.

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Strategy in practice, related resources.

Peer review refers to the many ways in which students can share their creative work with peers for constructive feedback and then use this feedback to revise and improve their work. For the writing process, revision is as important as drafting, but students often feel they cannot let go of their original words. By keeping an audience in mind and participating in focused peer review interactions, students can offer productive feedback, accept constructive criticism, and master revision. This is true of other creative projects, such as class presentations, podcasts, or blogs. Online tools can also help to broaden the concept of “peers.” Real literacy happens in a community of people who can make meaningful connections. Peer review facilitates the type of social interaction and collaboration that is vital for student learning.

Peer review can be used for different class projects in a variety of ways:

• Teach students to use these three steps to give peer feedback: Compliments, Suggestions, and Corrections (see the Peer Edit with Perfection! Handout ). Explain that starting with something positive makes the other person feel encouraged. You can also use Peer Edit With Perfection Tutorial to walk through the feedback process with your students.
• Provide students with sentence starter templates, such as, “My favorite part was _________ because __________,” to guide students in offering different types of feedback. After they start with something positive, have students point out areas that could be improved in terms of content, style, voice, and clarity by using another sentence starter (“A suggestion I can offer for improvement is ___________.”). The peer editor can mark spelling and grammar errors directly on the piece of writing.
• Teach students what constructive feedback means (providing feedback about areas that need improvement without criticizing the person). Feedback should be done in an analytical, kind way. Model this for students and ask them to try it. Show examples of vague feedback (“This should be more interesting.”) and clear feedback (“A description of the main character would help me to imagine him/her better.”), and have students point out which kind of feedback is most useful. The Peer Editing Guide offers general advice on how to listen to and receive feedback, as well as how to give it.
• For younger students, explain that you need helpers, so you will show them how to be writing teachers for each other. Model peer review by reading a student’s piece aloud, then have him/her leave the room while you discuss with the rest of the class what questions you will ask to elicit more detail. Have the student return, and ask those questions. Model active listening by repeating what the student says in different words. For very young students, encourage them to share personal stories with the class through drawings before gradually writing their stories.
• Create a chart and display it in the classroom so students can see the important steps of peer editing. For example, the steps might include: 1. Read the piece, 2. Say what you like about it, 3. Ask what the main idea is, 4. Listen, 5. Say “Add that, please” when you hear a good detail. For pre-writers, “Add that, please” might mean adding a detail to a picture. Make the chart gradually longer for subsequent sessions, and invite students to add dialogue to it based on what worked for them.
• Incorporate ways in which students will review each other’s work when you plan projects. Take note of which students work well together during peer review sessions for future pairings. Consider having two peer review sessions for the same project to encourage more thought and several rounds of revision.
• Have students review and comment on each other’s work online using Nicenet , a class blog, or class website.
• Have students write a class book, then take turns bringing it home to read. Encourage them to discuss the writing process with their parents or guardians and explain how they offered constructive feedback to help their peers.

Using peer review strategies, your students can learn to reflect on their own work, self-edit, listen to their peers, and assist others with constructive feedback. By guiding peer editing, you will ensure that your students’ work reflects thoughtful revision.

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25 Peer Feedback Examples

Peer feedback refers to an activity where colleagues or students receive comments and suggestions from their peers or classmates.

It is believed to be beneficial for helping both the giver and receiver of feedback to garner new insights, widen their thinking, correct errors, learn through teaching, and see how others approach tasks in different ways.

In education, the peer feedback generally does not affect assigned grades, but it does play a valuable role in formative assessment .

Peer Feedback Examples

• “Great job on the presentation! Your visuals were engaging, and you clearly communicated the main points.”
• “I noticed that you’ve been very proactive in taking on new tasks. Keep up the good work!”
• “Your attention to detail in the report was impressive. The data was well-organized and easy to understand.”
• “I think you could benefit from speaking more confidently during meetings. Maybe try rehearsing your points beforehand.”
• “Your teamwork skills are outstanding. You consistently make an effort to include everyone’s ideas and reach a consensus.”
• “During the brainstorming session, you came up with innovative solutions. Your creativity is a valuable asset to the team.”
• “Your time management skills have improved significantly. Keep up the great work in prioritizing and completing tasks on time.”
• “I observed that you sometimes get sidetracked during discussions. Staying focused on the agenda could help you contribute more effectively.”
• Your written communication is clear and concise, which makes it easy for everyone to understand your ideas.
• “When you’re leading a meeting, try to maintain eye contact with your audience. It helps to create a better connection and keeps everyone engaged.”
• You’ve been doing an excellent job in providing constructive criticism to our teammates. Your input is helping everyone improve.”
• “Your patience and willingness to help others with their tasks have made a noticeable difference in our team’s overall productivity.”
• “In the future, consider double-checking your work before submitting it. This will help minimize errors and ensure a higher quality output.”
• “I appreciate how you always encourage others to share their ideas during team discussions. It fosters a collaborative environment.”
• “You consistently stay calm under pressure, which helps our team maintain focus during stressful situations.”
• “Your ability to delegate tasks effectively has significantly improved our team’s efficiency. Keep up the good work!”
• “I noticed that you sometimes interrupt others during conversations. Being more aware of this behavior will help create a more inclusive environment.”
• Your enthusiasm and positive attitude are contagious, making it a pleasure to work with you.
• “You have a talent for explaining complex concepts in simple terms. This skill has been invaluable in helping our team understand new information.”
• “I’ve observed that you’re very responsive to feedback and quick to implement changes. Your adaptability is a real asset to our team.”
• “Your ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously is impressive. Your organizational skills contribute to our team’s success.
• “You have a knack for asking thought-provoking questions that lead to deeper discussions and better solutions.”
• “I appreciate your commitment to professional development . Your willingness to learn new skills and share your knowledge benefits the entire team.”
• “During group projects, you excel at keeping everyone on track and ensuring that deadlines are met. Your leadership skills contribute to our team’s cohesion .”
• “You consistently show empathy and understanding when interacting with colleagues, which fosters a supportive work environment for everyone.”

Peer Feedback Definition

Liu and Carless (2006) define peer feedback as:

“…a communication process through which learners enter into dialogues related to performance and standards” (p. 280).

Peer feedback can be arranged as a one-on-one activity or in small groups. It can be implemented as a role-play, occur in meetings, the classroom or online, or be delivered anonymously to avoid social issues.

It is usually considered a classroom activity for students, but it can also be utilized with teachers and in the workplace.

For example, colleagues can examine one another’s work and offer valuable insights to increase effectiveness and productivity.

5 Important Peer Feedback Strategies

• Focus on behavior, not the person: When providing feedback, concentrate on specific actions or behaviors, rather than making it about the individual. This ensures the feedback is professional and minimizes personal insult.
• Be timely: Feedback occurs best when it happens close to the event. Offer feedback as soon as possible, such as in a debrief at the end of a session. This ensures that it is fresh in both your mind and the recipient’s, making it more relevant and useful.
• Use open-ended questions : Feedback shouldn’t just be one-way communication. By talking back and forth, you can elicit better insights and be more helpful. So, encourage reflection and self-assessment by asking questions that require thoughtful responses, such as “What do you think went well in that presentation?” or “How do you feel you could improve your teamwork?”
• Practice active listening : Give your full attention to the person you are providing feedback to, and ensure you understand their perspective well. You may have misunderstood something, which may undermine the quality of your feedback. Furthermore, active listening helps create an atmosphere of trust and mutual respect.
• Maintain a positive tone: Frame your feedback in a way that is supportive and motivating, rather than negative or accusatory. This encourages your peer to be open to your suggestions and feel more confident in making changes. One strategy I like to use is the complement sandwich, which means you should open and close all feedback sessions with genuine and positive points.

Benefits of Peer Feedback   

1. supports perspective-taking.

When evaluating the work of a peer, we have to put ourselves in the shoes of a teacher or manager. This helps us understand the situation from a new point of view and will help us build perspective-taking skills.

Similarly, when delivering feedback to a peer, we need to consider how this will affect the person’s self-esteem. This is another form of perspective-taking that will help the feedback giver to develop emotional intelligence .

2. Helps us how to take Criticism

Feedback is a part of life. It occurs not only in school settings, but throughout adulthood as well. Employees receive feedback from supervisors, sometimes on a daily and hourly basis, and always in an annual performance evaluation.

Learning how to handle both positive and negative feedback is therefore a valuable skill to acquire. It is better to gain some experience handling criticism in the safety of a classroom than in a formal employment situation.

3. Increased Awareness of Grading Procedures

Because a student’s self-identity can be directly tied to their work, negative feedback can prevent them from understanding the logical basis for the criticism. This is a basic self-defense mechanism .

However, by looking at classwork from the perspective of an evaluator, it helps students understand the rationale behind grading procedures.

Students can develop a sense of objectivity in assessment and see the link between performance and grading criteria.

4. Can be more Effective than Authority Feedback

Both children and adults are sometimes more receptive to feedback from peers than authority figures.

Especially during the teen years, any communication from an adult is met with resistance. It’s just a state of mind during those years.

However, when feedback comes from a peer they may listen more carefully. Of course, that depends heavily on the other student’s delivery and status in the social order of the school.

5. Can Improve Academic Performance

When students have a clearer understanding of grading procedures, it can improve their academic performance. They construct a more comprehensive conception of quality that they then apply to their own work.

Students often find that after participating in peer feedback, as recipient and presenter, they need less feedback from the teacher to improve upon their own performance.

6. Exposure to Multiple Perspectives

When peer feedback is designed so that two or more students provide feedback on a student’s work, it provides different perspectives.

Each student providing the feedback may offer suggestions that reflect different points of view, sometimes even contrasting viewpoints.

This benefits the student receiving the feedback. They can see how their work is viewed from different angles and it exposes them to ideas they may not have considered previously.

Weaknesses of Peer Feedback 

1. social obstacles.

There are several possible social issues that can make peer feedback less effective. Obviously, peers that are friends may be reluctant to deliver criticism to each other.

Animosity among peers or power dynamics in the social order of the school can make a student less receptive to any feedback at all. When students refuse to listen to a peer it makes the feedback process ineffective.

In other cases, for a student that lacks confidence or social status, having their ideas ignored or rejected may damage their self-esteem. This in-turn will make them less willing to participate in the future.  

2. Creates Social Conflicts  

When one person criticizes the work of another, it can create a whole host of social problems . It can lead to tension, quarrels, harsh feelings, or escalate previous conflicts.

Students will be acutely aware of these possibilities. This may make them reluctant to be honest or participate at all.

But in the workplace, it can also cause power struggles and undermine the collegial atmosphere, especially if the feedback-giver has not effectively or professionally communicated their feedback.

3. Surface Level Suggestions 

Peers may not be able to offer valuable suggestions. Their knowledge of standards may be minimal. Their ability to engage in critical-analysis may not be well-developed. And, they may be unable to articulate advice that will allow a student to make meaningful adjustments to their work. 

This means that any feedback offered is unlikely to produce significant benefits to the student receiving that feedback.

4. Time Consuming 

Peer feedback activities are sometimes very time consuming. The coordination of the activity and the process itself takes time away from other instruction.

The manager ot teacher may also feel compelled to check on the feedback and make adjustments as necessary, which is also quite time consuming.

All in all, a cost-benefit analysis may lead some teachers to conclude that the amount of time it takes to do peer feedback does not pay the dividends that make it worthwhile.

Peer feedback involves peers evaluating the work of each other. There are many options for doing this.

For example, for those that like to incorporate technology, there are the Google and Microsoft platforms that enable students to post their work and receive feedback from peers.

Schools also utilize peer feedback so that teachers can hear valuable suggestions from colleagues. These feedback sessions can take place in small groups that focus on a specific lesson. Other versions help teachers collaborate on various issues to create schoolwide consistency across the curriculum.

There are numerous benefits to peer feedback. For instance, students develop a better understanding of grading procedures, rationale, and criteria.

In addition to building EQ skills that help peers learn how to deliver criticism in a positive way, they also learn how to receive negative feedback.

Of course, there are potential negatives as well. For example, peers may be reluctant to jeopardize friendships or reject suggestions coming from peers that lack status as authority figures.

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Simple Ways to Solicit Peer Feedback

When high school students assess each other’s work, they have an authentic audience and may be more likely to act on suggestions.

It can be hard as a high school English teacher to stay on top of grading all the writing, reading, and speaking I ask my students to do, and yet I know the value of timely and meaningful feedback. Last year I realized that the feedback doesn’t always need to come from me—it can also be meaningful (even more meaningful for teenagers) when it comes from classmates.

Besides relieving me of some of the pressure, creating a classroom culture where students give each other feedback has helped me increase engagement and build community. Students better internalize rubric criteria and often act on suggestions from their peers. Their work becomes more relevant because they know they have an authentic audience. In addition, having more frequent interactions among students builds rapport and trust and disrupts the idea that I’m the only expert in the room.

Here’s how I solicit peer feedback at various points in the assessment process.

Soliciting Peer Feedback for Formative Assessments

At the beginning of the writing/design process:   Pitches on Flipgrid. During the brainstorming stages of a personal narrative assignment, I ask my students to pitch their idea by creating a short video on Flipgrid. They provide a working title and brief synopsis of the beginning, middle, and end of their story. Then they watch and respond to the pitches of two classmates. My colleagues and I model both the pitch and the response steps with videos of our own and give written instructions to provide sentence starters for their feedback.

In your response, you can include the following:

• Questions about parts that were unclear (I didn’t get the part about...)
• Questions out of genuine curiosity (What happened next? Why were you...? What if you tried to...?)
• Connections (Something similar happened to me when...)
• Reactions (I love the part when... I could really imagine when you said... Something was missing when... I wanted to know more about...)

The results can be really exciting. Students ask each other questions, make connections to their own experiences and cultures, and give suggestions that their peers end up using in their written drafts. Sometimes they even say unexpectedly encouraging things like “I can’t wait to read it!”

During collaborative activities: Rate and recognize routines. After group activities such as book club meetings, I ask each student to individually rate their group’s collaboration using a four-point scale. Then they complete the sentence “Shout-out to... for....” I share the shout-outs (but not the numerical ratings) the next day with the whole class.

The four-point rating allows me to get a quick sense of how the group feels about their experience. If the whole group seems frustrated and rates themselves at two or one, I intervene to talk through the group dynamics. More often than not, however, the shout-outs from their peers are enough to alleviate the need for teacher intervention. Shout-outs help us focus on the positive and give students concrete examples of what good collaboration looks like and what their peers appreciate:

• Morgan did a fantastic job at finding reliable sources that contributed to our claims.
• Shout-out to Sadie for being efficient with making the group copy.
• Shout-out to Jalani for participating in our group discussion today and asking questions.

Soliciting Peer Feedback for Summative Assessments

After a Socratic seminar or graded discussion: Reflect using Google Forms. Asking students to reflect after a graded discussion is part of my regular practice, and I used to ask them to focus only on their own performance. Last year, I added two questions that focus on others:

• Give a specific example of something someone else said during this discussion that resonated with you. Explain why it stuck with you.
• Who in your Socratic circle would you like to recognize and for what?

Their responses provided insight into the moments of a Socratic seminar that I may have missed. For example, one student asked the most profound questions but shared with me in her evaluation that she felt awkward that nobody really tried to answer them. Nevertheless, her name and ideas showed up in everyone’s answer about what resonated with them. Because of the peer feedback component, I was able to assure her that she had planted a lot of seeds that day and back it up by showing her the comments from her peers.

Using Google Forms allows me to convert the responses to a spreadsheet and then easily copy comments and paste them on student rubrics.

After other performance-based assessments: Sticky notes on Jamboard. Students in one of my classes created podcasts for the New York Times Student Podcast Contest. After listening to each podcast, students anonymously left feedback on Jamboard frames. The prompt I gave them was “What did you like about this podcast? What engaged you as a listener?”

When students had presented all of the podcasts, I asked them to complete a second feedback step: scroll back through the Jamboard frames and draw a star on the ones that podcasters should consider entering in the NYT contest. More than any encouragement I could’ve given, this final step really helped persuade students to take the risk and submit their work.

Using peer feedback in the assessment process requires consistent modeling, repetition, and a commitment to sharing the feedback with students and creating opportunities for them to act on the feedback. But the payoff is worth the effort. You’ll be working toward a classroom culture where students feel more seen, heard, valued, and, consequently, engaged in their work.