• What can people learn from their peers, who may not know the answer either?
• What kind of feedback is most helpful?
• When feedback comes from multiple peers, how is it integrated?
• What do students learn from giving feedback to peers?
• What kind of feedback is most helpful?
• What kinds of interventions (training, examples, interface changes) are required to improve the value and validity of peer feedback and evaluation?

Current projects:

• SWoRD: Scaffolded Writing and Rewriting in the Discipline. Developing and testing a classroom collaboration tool that allows students to grade and comment on each other's papers, adaptively learning about how to become better writers and reviewers. Data has been collected in dozens of courses, and various layers of data are being carefully coded and analyzed.

Postdocs, graduate students, and staff:

If you are interesting in working on these projects, either for graduate school or for undergraduate research credit or undergraduate research experience, contact Christian Schunn.

• Cho, K., & Schunn, C. D. (2006). Scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline: A web-based reciprocal peer review system. Computers & Education.
• Cho, K., Schunn, C. D.., & Charney, D. (2006). Commenting on Writing: Typology and Perceived Helpfulness of Comments from Novice Peer Reviewers and Subject Matter Experts. Written Communication.

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