Master students’ reactions to peer review

Abstract

Peer Review is an advanced activity for students that has been used to improve writing skills, to familiarize students with what constitutes good versus poor work, and to provide them with experiences they cannot get otherwise. In this paper we describe the use of peer review in two ICT Master Courses and students’ reaction to it. Surprisingly, most of these master students (Portuguese teachers) were not familiar with peer review and initially had difficulty in accepting it. However, most of them recognized its benefits.