This study aims to clarify the effect of peer evaluation on writing practices regarding writing book reports on the web by means of its board. Writing a book report plays an important role as one of post-reading activities. Nevertheless, such the writ...
This study aims to clarify the effect of peer evaluation on writing practices regarding writing book reports on the web by means of its board. Writing a book report plays an important role as one of post-reading activities. Nevertheless, such the writings have not been successfully and substantially evaluated by teachers in actuality. In this context, this study suggests peer evaluation as an approach to more efficient evaluation on them. As part of the effort to minimize temporal and spatial limitations and to maximize intimacy, webboard was used. First above all, the characteristics seen in peer evaluation were researched for each type of conversation. Many students often praised formally others in terms of their own jargons of Internet. Text evaluations addressed primarily the descriptions of texts, and it was found that the results of evaluation by the teacher had significant influence upon peer evaluation and text modification. At the same time, the author analyzed the process in which students modified their own texts on the basis of the results of peer evaluation. The phases of modifying book reports among students were classified largely into: randomly impromptu writing phase; refining phase; transitional phase; and interactive phase, and each of them were examined in detail.