Peer-Review Rubric

A peer-review rubric is a defined set of criteria that participants apply to each other's work during a Peer Review activity. The rubric is explicit, shared in advance, and teachable — naming the criteria is itself part of the learning. A good peer-review rubric is specific enough that two reviewers applying it to the same work would arrive at similar evaluations, and teaches the reader something about the domain even before they apply it. The rubric is Peer Review's load-bearing element: without a specific rubric, the activity collapses into general opinion exchange.