The impact of different peer feedback types on student academic writing performance from dyadic and individual analyses
Zhang H. Costley J. Courtney M. Shulgina G. Fanguy M.
April 2025Springer
Education and Information Technologies
2025#30Issue 56339 - 6366 pp.
Depending on the nature of comments made during peer review of academic writing, students may be able to evaluate and revise their performance. Therefore, it is essential to explore how the content of comments affects student writing. Since peer review is a process of interaction, it is critical to understand how comments affect student academic writing performance at both group and individual levels. This study examined online peer review of 68 master’s and doctoral students in the scientific writing course who divided themselves into dyads. The study evaluated the effect of different feedback categories on the writing scores of five different sections of a scientific research manuscript. Comments can be broadly categorised as elaboration, verification, and general. Their focus can be further divided into abstract general, criteria general, criteria specific, and language. The results revealed that different types of feedback affected dyadic and individual writing performance in similar ways. Verification feedback had a more pronounced effect on student writing performance than elaboration and general types of feedback. The findings also suggested that verification feedback had different effects on writing in different manuscript sections.For example, an increase in the frequency of verification feedback was associated with improved scores on the abstract, but decreased scores on the results section.
Comments categories , Elaboration feedback , General feedback , Peer review , Student writing performance , Verification feedback
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Institute of Education, Higher School of Economics, Myasnitskaya Ulitsa, 20, Moscow, 101000, Russian Federation
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Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education, Astana, Kazakhstan
Department of English Language Education, The Education University of Hong Kong, 10 Lo Ping Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong
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Nazarbayev University Graduate School of Education
Department of English Language Education
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