Week 4: Peer evaluation process

This week I have been given an evaluation template and I am required to use it to evaluate my design as well as evaluate one of my peers designs. I have used it to evaluate a peer and found the template very useful and detailed. Whenever I am providing online feedback, I find myself forever worrying about how others will interpret what I am writing, as you cannot see the emotion in words and therefore it can quite often be misinterpreted. Another problem with peer feedback is that you have to rely on other people to provide you with feedback which is a draw back if the other person has a busier schedule then your own. In my group, we have been lucky to have some excellent people that are very happy to help each other out, therefore when others are to busy to help out, others will hold the fort and lend a helping hand. As my design has not yet been evaluated I cannot comment on the assessee process however I know that the assessor process was quite beneficial and that whilst evaluating my peers work I realised there were minor improvements I could make to my own design before another peer evaluates my work.