Peer Feedback Processes and Individual Accountability in Team-Based Learning

This chapter provides an inclusive view of peer feedback, consistent with the recommendations provided, and extends those ideas by focusing on the dimensions and factors that influence competent student-to-student peer feedback. It has three objectives. First, the chapter establishes a context for the importance of student-to-student peer feedback-formative process feedback (provided multiple times during the course) and summative outcome feedback (provided once at the end of the course)-to achieve Team-Based Learning (TBL) learning objectives. Next, it describes the complexity and unique characteristics of TBL peer feedback processes and how these factors can influence individual behaviors and enhance group productivity. Finally, it identifies the skills and justifies the procedures for helping students communicate constructive peer feedback-especially when such feedback contains negative messages. Peer formative process feedback supplies a results-driven structure with specific criteria that provides standards of excellence and helps to ensure mutual accountability in TBL groups.