Peer assessment is when students rate each other's contribution to a team, or review each other's work, against criteria the teacher sets in advance. PES supports both: team members rating every teammate and themselves, and structured review of submitted work.
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Most courses need one of these, and project courses often use both.
Each student rates every teammate, and themselves, on the behaviours that make a team work: preparation, reliability, ideas, listening, handling disagreement. Team-level questions capture how the group worked together.
Students submit a deliverable and review their classmates' submissions against a rubric, with a score and written feedback for each criterion.
Examples written by our team that you can adapt. Each is rated on a 1–5 scale, from "never" to "always". Behaviour-based items like these are easier to rate fairly than traits such as "is a good leader".
For each student, PES averages the ratings their teammates gave them, leaving their own self-rating out, and shows that average next to the self-rating. The standard deviation of the teammates' ratings shows how much they agree, and the percentile places the student within the class. Team and class averages give the context.
Teammates' average = sum of the ratings a student received from teammates ÷ number of teammates who rated them
The gap between self-rating and teammates' average is usually the most useful number in the report: a large positive gap is the start of a conversation, not a verdict.
Students work to the criteria they know they will be rated on.
A mid-course round is formative; the second shows whether feedback changed anything.
Use peer ratings to adjust or inform a grade, not to replace the teacher's assessment.
Ratings are shown without names, but in a team of three a student can often guess who said what. Say so in advance.
Peer assessment is set up with our team rather than self-service: send us your course, your teams and the criteria you want to use, and we prepare the programme with you. Students then answer from a personal link, and you follow completion from your dashboard.
Peer assessment (coevaluación in Spanish) is an evaluation in which students rate each other's contribution to shared work, or review each other's deliverables, using criteria set in advance by the teacher. It is used to make individual effort visible in team projects and to develop students' ability to give feedback.
Up to 12 people per team in PES Peer. Every member rates every teammate and themselves, so larger groups are usually split into teams first.
Yes. You can use your own questions, rating scale and competencies, or start from ours and adapt them. PES Review works with your own rubric and criteria.
Students see their teammates' ratings without names. PES does not hide results from small teams, so in a team of three or four a student may be able to guess who rated what; we recommend telling students this before they answer. In PES Review, anonymous reviews are an option you choose per project.
Yes. You can run several rounds in the same programme, and the teacher report shows each round side by side, so you can see whether ratings change after feedback.