Peer Review and Reflection in Engineering Labs: Writing to Learn and Learning to Write

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Mexico in the Organization, Information & Learning Sciences program, and in the Chemical & Biological Engineering Department. She served as Co-PI on an NSF RET Grant and a USDA NIFA grant, and is currently co-PI on three NSF-funded projects in engineering and computer science education, including a Revolutionizing Engineering Departments project. She was selected as a National Academy of Education / Spencer Postdoctoral Fellow. Dr. Svihla studies learning in authentic, real world conditions; this includes a twostrand research program focused on (1) authentic assessment, often aided by interactive technology, and (2) design learning, in which she studies engineers designing devices, scientists designing investigations, teachers designing learning experiences and students designing to learn.

Insights and Outcomes from a Revolution in a Chemical Engineering Department

“…We also learned the importance of not making it easy for students to just "accept all" changes, instead focusing on modeling just a few changes and asking students to make the edits themselves. We found that faculty had ideas of various ways to implement these ideas, from using peer-reviews to component submission, yet all of these variants supported student growth, both in terms of conceptual learning and as technical writers, provided the students had to make revisions [52,53].…”