A Peer Review Training Workshop: Coaching Students to Give and Evaluate Peer Feedback

Teaching Students to Give and To Receive: Improving Disciplinary Writing Through Peer Review

The context for this study is a multi-disciplinary collaboration of six faculty members using peer review in their respective disciplines with the goal of improved student writing. Faculty members developed their own assignments and methods for implementing peer review, but each followed the same guidelines. Students submitted drafts to peers who made comments and used a rubric to provide forma...

A Review on the Editorial Peer Review

Background and Objectives: The editorial peer review has an important role in the publication of scientific articles. Peers or reviewers are those scholars who have the expertise regarding the topic of a given article. They critically appraise the articles without having any monetary incentives or conflicts of interest. The aim of this study was to determine the most important aspects of the ed...

TAC: A Topology-Aware Chord-based Peer-to-Peer Network

Among structured Peer-to-Peer systems, Chord has a general popularity due to its salient features like simplicity, high scalability, small path length with respect to network size, and flexibility on node join and departure. However, Chord doesn’t take into account the topology of underlying physical network when a new node is being added to the system, thus resulting in high routing late...

Workshop on Reliable Peer-to-Peer Distributed Systems

Peer Coaching in a University Reference Department

Seeking to extend its regular staff development program, Temple University's Reference and Information Services Department implemented in Spring 1989 a semester-long peer coaching program designed to provide staff with support in fine-tuning and maintaining certain reference desk skills. The program combined training in positive reference behaviors, objective observation, and feedback. In addit...