Peer Review in Education: Promoting Collaboration, Written Expression, Critical Thinking, and Professional Responsibility

  • Authors:

  • Vinícius Medina Kern;Luciana Martins Saraiva;Roberto Carlos Dos Santos Pacheco

  • Affiliations:

  • UNIVALI at São José, Computing Science and Engineering, and UFSC, Graduate Program in Production Engineering E-mail: kern@eps.ufsc.br;UNIVALI at Biguaçu, Psychology, and UFSC, Graduate Program in Production Engineering E-mail: saraiva@big.univali.br;UFSC, Graduate Program in Production Engineering E-mail: pacheco@eps.ufsc.br

  • Venue:
  • Education and Information Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

This article discusses the application of the peer review process as a pedagogical instrument for the promotion of written expression, collaborative work, critical thinking, and professional responsibility among Informatics and Engineering majors. The approach is introduced with a motivation, followed by a discussion about common principles of current learning paradigms and the peer review process. This work is being conducted in Brazil, where we intend to promote a learning paradigm shift through the application of peer review in education. A framework for this application is outlined, together with an account of results from experiences and a discussion about the skills that this approach exercises, especially with regard to widely accepted curricula and codes of ethics and professional conduct. Further research and development efforts are conjectured.