Abstract
Peer review studies have been done for years. It has been found that by having these activities, learners will get benefits from the communication with the peer who can give them input to improve their writing performance. Peer review can be done face to face or online. Face to face peer review is done synchronously where two students are having discussion on their essay, whereas online peer review can be done synchronously or asynchronously. This preliminary study investigates how the application of synchronous online peer review in Academic Writing class can be implemented to help them to do revision and improve their writing skills. The participants of this study is 50 students of academic writing class from two different class. This is an experimental study where the students were treated to get peer review activities from the software which is uploaded in web. They did the practice twice with the shuffled questions. This was aimed that they would be ready to give review. Pre-test and post-test were conducted and Gracian questionnaire to know their learning styles was uploaded in the web for them to fill in order to know their learning styles. it was found out that there are some improvement and there is correlation between their academic skills and the learning styles.
Highlights
Studies describing peer review has been done for decades
Another study on peer assessment model designed in collaborative learning has been done by and the findings showed that peer assessment model was in line with the collaborative learning design and it provided an opportunity upon preservice English teachers’ genre based writing competence increase and problem solving and the model was suitable, adaptable and functional to reduce the conventional assessment in order to gain the reflected learning effectiveness (Sumekto, 2016)
From the results of experimental studies on online peer review conducted in a synchronous and synchronous manner, it can be concluded that students can conduct systematic peer reviews because training has been conducted to do peer review online
Summary
Studies describing peer review has been done for decades. Some studies have examined a variety of research questions, which can be categorized into three main areas. They are studies describing the activities done in peer review activities, the effect of peer review and the attitudes of students towards the peer review activities (Ferris, 2003). She describes the studies that have been done in 1990s. Some studies on the peer review characteristics have shown that students with collaborative type improve their writing skills.
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