Peer Exchange Directions
INFO FOR 1ST DELIVERY
Many instructors and educators, as well as learning theorists, consider feedback
from a partner in your class to be an important condition of learning. In upcoming activities, you and the members of your
small group will exchange papers, the purpose of which is to (1) see how someone other than yourself views the issues, (2)
practice your own analysis and critical thinking skills, and (c) receive feedback on your own work.
Each member of your group will review and provide feedback on another’s
work, and your first task is to determine whose paper you will review. First, locate your group and note the order of the
names of the students in your group. Second, follow the strategy given below. In a sense, this strategy actually gives you
two partners, one for whom you will give a review and one from whom you will receive a review.
The last person will review the first person’s work.
The first person will review the second person’s work.
The second will review the third person’s work.
The third will review the fourth person’s work.
The fourth will review the fifth person’s work.
And so on if you haVE more members in your group.
2ND DELIVERY ANNOUNCEMENT/INFORMATION
Many instructors and educators, as well as learning
theorists, consider feedback from a partner in your class to be an important condition of learning. In upcoming activities,
you and the members of your small group will exchange papers, the purpose of which is to (1) see how someone other than yourself
views the issues, (2) practice your own analysis and critical thinking skills, and (c) receive feedback on your own work.
END ANNOUNCEMENT IF YOU DON'T WANT THE GROUPS TO SELF-SELECT AND YOU WILL ASSIGN PARTNERS. CONTINUE AS FOLLOWS IF YOU WANT
THEM TO SELF-SELECT.
Each member of your group will review and provide
feedback on another’s work, and your first task is to determine whose paper you will review. First, locate your small
group within your mentor group section and note the order of the names of the students in your small group. Second, note whether
you have an odd number in your group. Then follow the appropriate strategy given below.
After you identify your partner, please send an email to your partner and copy your mentor and lead faculty so that
they can check to make sure everyone has a partner and that no one has more than one partner.
[Modify this part as needed. Follow basic pattern
for rotated exchanges, assuming 2 or 4 assignments: member 1 reviews 2, 2 reviews 3, 3 reviews 4, 4 reviews 5, 5 reviews 1;
then switch: 1 reviews 5, 2 reviews 1, 3 reviews 2, 4 reviews 3, 5 reviews 4. Can repeat this pattern or switch to next rotation where 1 reviews 3, 2 reviews 4,
3 reviews 5, 5 reviews 2. And next, 1 reviews 4, 2 reviews 5, 3 reviews 1, 4 reviews 2, 5 reviews 3.]
[With even numbered groups, direct exchanges can
work where 1 & 2 exchange, 3 & 4, 5 & 6 exchange, etc. You could keep that pattern or you might have 1 & 3,
2 & 5, 4 & 6 exchange. Where there are odd numbered groups, only rotation works well, so it’s not really an
exchange unless you start with 1 reviews 2, 2 reviews 3, 3 reviews 4, 4 reviews 5; then go to 2 reviews 1, 3 reviews 2, 4
reviews 3, 5 reviews 4, etc. as presented in the previous paragraph.]
SAMPLE DIRECTIONS, where the goal was a little
more complex, to have the students in even and odd-numbered groups within a mentor group to review each other’s work.
For Groups with an Even Number:
The first and second person will review each other's
work. The third and fourth persons will review each other's work, and so on.
For Groups with an Odd Number:
Follow the same strategy above unless you are
the last person on the list. If you are the last person on the list, look for another group that has an odd number and find
the last person on that list. You two will exchange reviews of your work.
For a Lone Group with an Odd Number: The last
person will review the first person’s work. The first person will review the second person’s work. The second
will review the third person’s work, and so on. In a sense, this strategy actually gives you two partners, one for whom
you will give a review and one from whom you will receive a review. So you will need to modify slightly the ways in which
you do some of the activities and you are encouraged to do so with sensibility. If in doubt about what to do for an individual
activity, ask your mentor.