About the peer review

Class,

Have received some pointed misgivings about the peer review exercise.

Let me clarify that the exercise was overwhelmingly positive in that most folks gave their group members good marks.

There were a few cases where that didn't happen. Even there, minor differences in marking (if they weren't all exactly equal) could be glossed over and were glossed over, in fact.

Only in the rarest of cases where a zero was given to particular member by a majority of the concerned group was anything done and even that was a couple of % points worth of penalty.

Part of the reason why this had to be done this way was that it was announced late and was not part of the project detail from the beginning (it will be so next year, helping ensure everybody contributes and nobody free-rides on group work).

Hope that helped clarify.

Sudhir