In-Classroom Peer Review Implementation Research

Due to the latest trend in Russian education system reformation an educational process becomes massive. That fact could lead to the decrease of educational level. In that case the learning approaches should be modified or changed to maintain the balance in process. This paper is aimed to demonstrate results of the study devoted to the in-classroom peer review implementation (the approach is widely spread in MOOCs). The research is based on the analysis of the data collected during the experimental assignments. The goals of the study are to examine the validity of the peer review in academic environment, to find out the suitable calculation method used, and to define restrictions in reviewers to authors ratio. The research is divided into two parts. The first one is initial data analysis, the second one is the simulation of peer review process by varying the reviewers number in samples of initial data. The experimental and the researching limitations are the use of Google Documents platform and twice-conducted course data, including four essays’ data sets. The results are reported in narrow text, table and graphical views. The initial data sets are shared for any external analysis.