Guideline & Policy for Presentation Peer Review

Archived policy snapshot. Preserved before the Fall 2026 update. Earlier offerings linked to these shared guidelines; this snapshot records their state at archival time, not necessarily their original wording in every year.

Students should attend other students’ presentations and write peer-review report for 1 presentation. I will randomly assign 1 presentation to each student. This is a way to check the participation for me. But more importantly, it is a way to provide useful feedback to your classmates. Students will be graded on the quality of the reviews they provide.

The format of each review should again has three parts:

1. Summarization [25%, 3-5 sentences]
   • Briefly summarize what the presentation is about.
2. Pros & Cons [25%, 3-5 sentences for Pros & 25%, 3-5 sentences for Cons]
   • Describe the strength and the weakness. Typical criteria include: soundness of the claims (theoretical grounding, empirical evaluation), significance and novelty of the contribution, and clarity of the writing.
3. Take-home messages and additional comments [25%, 3-5 sentences]
   • Summarize important things that you learned
   • Raise questions you have
   • Propose suggestions about how to improve the work