It could be said that peer review for students who are writing essays could qualify as a type of peer assessment, which is defined as a collaborative learning technique where students evaluate their peers’ work at the same time that they have their work evaluated by their peers.
In this sense, while students give their peers feedback on the quality of their work, including ideas and strategies for improving it, they can at the same time reflect on their own efforts. Therefore, the use of this meta-cognitive tool of peer review could benefit students who are writing essays by enhancing the student own capacity to reflect on their own learning and skill development while he or she critically evaluate his/her peer work.
