Online Peer Feedback in Beginners’ Writing Tasks

Peer Feedback Content and Sender’s Competence Level in Academic Writing Revision Tasks: Are They Critical for Feedback Perceptions and Efficiency?

Peer feedback content is a core component of peer assessment, but the impact of various contents of feedback is hardly studied. Participants in the study were 89 graduate students who were assigned to four experimental and a control group. Experimental groups received a scenario with Concise General (CGF) or Elaborated Specific (ESF) feedback by a high or low competent peer. ESF by a high compe...

Online Scheduling of Splittable Tasks in Peer-to-Peer Networks

We consider online scheduling of splittable tasks on parallel machines. In our model, each task can be split into a limited number of parts, that can then be scheduled independently. We consider both the case where the machines are identical and the case where some subset of the machines have a (fixed) higher speed than the others. We design a class of algorithms which allows us to give tight b...

The Effect of Online Peer Feedback on the Academic Writing Ability of Iranian EFL Learners

This paper reports an exploratory study of 60 English as a foreign language (EFL) student’s experiences of online peer feedback in an essay writing course at Islamic Azad University, Dezful Branch. They were required to comment on their peers’ writing essays using the checklist to whom had been made available, but in different ways. The groups were required to self-assess their own writing piec...

Writing a research article: advice to beginners.

teaching academic writing in iranian efl classrooms: teacher-initiated comments or peer-provided feedback?

this research study aimed at investigating whether using peer-provided feedbacks rather than teacher-provided comments would result in any significance difference in iranian english undergraduate students’ ability in writing. in so doing, based on a pretest (an opt & a writing exam), 40 subjects were assigned to two homogeneous groups of equal number the subjects in the control group received m...