Peer Praise

teaching

Asking students to praise two favorite projects by their classmates, and why forwarding that praise is a win for everyone.

Author

Christopher R. H. Hanusa

Published

December 20, 2019

This post was originally a Twitter thread.

Currently* grading projects in the run-up to the end of the semester. One thing that I love is the results of a request that I make of students - “Please send me a paragraph about two favorite projects from your classmates.”

I receive these paragraphs, give a few ‘bonus points’, and then send the paragraphs to the students who were praised. Inevitably there are a wide number of projects that are singled out!

This adds to the feeling of a supportive learning environment (which is amazing), it gives students anonymous praise (a fellow student went out of their way to single out MY project!), and it gives me something to include in future letters of recommendations. WIN WIN WIN WIN WIN

Citation

BibTeX citation:

@online{hanusa2019,
  author = {Hanusa, Christopher R. H.},
  title = {Peer {Praise}},
  date = {2019-12-20},
  url = {https://hanusa.xyz/blog/posts/2019-12-20-peer-praise/},
  langid = {en}
}

For attribution, please cite this work as:

Hanusa, Christopher R. H. 2019. “Peer Praise.” December 20. https://hanusa.xyz/blog/posts/2019-12-20-peer-praise/.