Peer review: The rationale

• Communication skills are important.
• Doing a careful and thorough job is important.
• Studying others' work provides a valuable new perspective.
• Group discussion and joint effort are valuable.
• You never really understand something until you teach it.
• This process is like real life.
• Spreading out your attention to a topic's homework over 2 weeks has pedagogical value ("sink-in time").
• The reports give the instructor early warning of trouble areas that should be addressed in class.
• The solutions manuals produced are useful in later semesters.
• You will finally learn the Greek alphabet. :-)

See also Internet Awareness Week and TeX Users Group talks.

Last updated Mon 3 Jan 00