peerview.ca—Higher Education Assessment
A journalism-meets-business school approach to peer assessment
PeerView helps higher education institutions use AI's affordances to deepen student-to-student discourse, collaboration, and critical thinking — not replace it.
A New Pedagogy for a New Era
4×
more substantive peer feedback when students evaluate work through structured discourse frameworks
Nicol, D. & Macfarlane-Dick, D. (2006). Formative assessment and self-regulated learning. Studies in Higher Education.
The most powerful learning happens when students engage critically with each other's ideas — not when they submit work into a void and wait for a grade.
PeerView is built on a simple conviction: students learn more from rigorous conversation with peers than from any other single pedagogical intervention. Our platform structures that conversation — giving it form, accountability, and depth — while using AI tools to expand the range and clarity of discourse, not to substitute for it.
The question facing institutions is not how to restrict new tools — it is how to design learning experiences where students engage so deeply with ideas and with each other that the quality of their thinking becomes unmistakably their own.
The Pedagogical Opportunity
Students learn best when they teach each other
Journalism schools have long known that the editorial critique — peers interrogating each other's work with rigour and generosity — produces better writers than any lecture. Business schools built the case method on the same insight: structured peer discourse develops judgment that no textbook can. PeerView brings that model to every discipline.
“When students assess each other, they engage more deeply, think more critically, and retain more — for both the assessor and the assessed.”
AI tools offer a genuine opportunity here: to scaffold richer conversations, surface connections across student work, and help students articulate their thinking more precisely. PeerView leverages these affordances deliberately — as amplifiers of human discourse, not replacements for it.
Platform Capabilities
Every tool your institution needs for rigorous peer evaluation
Peer Evaluation Engine
Structured, anonymised peer review workflows with configurable assignment logic, calibration rounds, and inter-rater reliability scoring.
Rubric Builder
Design criterion-referenced rubrics aligned to learning outcomes. Import from existing frameworks or build from research-validated templates.
Analytics Dashboard
Instructor-facing insights on evaluation quality, grade distributions, and student engagement — with exportable reports for institutional review.
Discourse Scaffolding
Guided prompts and structured response frameworks that help students give feedback with the depth and specificity of a seasoned editor.
LMS Integration
Connect with Canvas, Moodle, and Brightspace. Grade passback and roster sync included.
AI-Assisted Clarity Tools
Optional AI tools that help students articulate their feedback more precisely — expanding their critical vocabulary without replacing their judgment.
Evidence Base
Decades of research. Students learn more from each other.
89%
of students report deeper engagement with course material when peer evaluation is used
Falchikov & Goldfinch, 2000 — meta-analysis of 48 studies
0.69
average correlation between peer and instructor grades across disciplines — peer assessment is academically rigorous
Li et al., 2020 — systematic review
3×
more feedback received per student compared to instructor-only assessment
Nicol & Macfarlane-Dick, 2006
Bring structured peer discourse to your institution
Join universities across Canada building richer student conversations with PeerView.