Peer assessment: a missing link between teaching and learning? A review of the literature.

Selected theoretical and empirical educational literature relating to peer review were evaluated. The aim of the survey was to provide guidance with regard to the possible introduction of peer review within the author's place of work. The results of the survey highlighted the positive benefits peer review had in terms of professional development, the development of transferable graduate skills, and in more general terms with regard to learning strategies. The conclusions drawn from the survey highlight the importance of broadening the research to part-time students where difficulties with regard to the formation of groups might be encountered, as well as the positive benefit of peer review as a method of assessment. Copyright 2001 Harcourt Publishers Ltd.