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What is educational peer review: It is the application of peer review, the main mechanism for evaluation and quality control in science, to an educational setting. In individual terms, it boosts the development of critical thinking and of the sense of professional ethics and responsibility (besides exercising writing skills aimed at objectivity, precision, and density). Each student acts as author and refereee. In collective terms, it is a strategy to strenghten scientific communication bonds in an educational community with the aim of enhancing its scientific culture and performance.

Our experience: We begun in 1997, in a course on Databases at Computer Science/Univali, Brazil (undergraduate). Since then we had nearly 1000 student participations at both graduate and undergraduate levels, in 3 institutions in Santa Catarina state. Current activities are being developed at the Graduate Program in Knowledge Engineering and Management, Federal University of Santa Catarina.

This project: This interdisciplinary R&D project deals with the investigation and development of models, methods, and tools aimed at supporting aplicability and effectivity of educational peer review. Models should allow for the representation of documents (e.g., works submitted for review, referee forms), processes (e.g., peer review rounds) and profiles (e.g., record of a student as author and reviewer through several participations). Methods should synthesize local and international experience in the form of guidelines for running and assessing original works, reviews, the process, and students through several participations in educational peer review. Tools should create new knowledge and new opportunities for learning and assessment, solve knowledge-intensive tasks, and alleviate the bureaucratic workload.

* Strictu sensu: Masters and PhD; Lato sensu: "Specialization", a Brazilian format similar to an MBA.

Publications: These are some of my publications and partners':

• Jounal papers:
• KERN, V. M.; SARAIVA, L.M.; PACHECO, R.C.S. Peer review in education: promoting collaboration, written expression, critical thinking, and professional responsibility. Education and Information Technologies, v. 8, n. 1, p. 37-46, 2003.
• KERN, V. M.; SARAIVA, L.M. Aplicação da revisão pelos pares no ensino de graduação. Alcance year VI, n. 3, p. 42-49, 1999.
  
• Congress papers:
• KERN, V.M., POSSAMAI, O., SELIG, P.M., PACHECO, R.C.S., SOUZA, G.C., RAUTENBERG, S., LEMOS, R.T.S. Growing a peer review culture among graduate students In: World Conference on Computers in Education, 9., 2009, Bento Gonçalves-RS. Proceedings... 2009.
  
• PAULISTA, G.; SARTORI, R.; SÁ. M.F. de; KERN, V. M.; ALVES, J.B.M. Peer review system: self-organized or directed?In: 19th International Conference on Production Research, 2007, Valparaiso-Chile. Proceedings..., 2007.
• CORREA NETO, Á. S.; KERN, V. M. Requisitos de uma interface para apoio à aplicação da revisão pelos pares na aprendizagem. In: Conferência Internacional de Educação em Engenharia e Computação - ICECE 2003, 2003, São Vicente / Santos-SP. Anais, 2003.
• KERN, V. M.; PERNIGOTTI, J.M.; CALEGARO, M. M.; BENTO, M. Peer review in engineering education: speeding up learning, looking for a paradigm shift. In: Seventh International Conference on Engineering and Technology Education, Santos-SP. Proceedings of INTERTECH, 2002.
  
• Books, chapters, theses, and dissertations:
• KERN, V. M.; PACHECO, R.C.S.; SARAIVA, L.M.; PERNIGOTTI, J.M. Peer review in Computer Science education: Requirements for continuous, large scale application. In: Francisco Milton Mendes Neto; Francisco Vilar Brasileiro. (eds.). Advances in Computer Supported Learning. Hershey, PA (EUA): Idea Group Publishing, 2007, p. 45-65.
• FACHIN, G.R.B.; SCHRUBER JR., J.; PEREIRA, K.; COMARELLA, R.L., SUZUKI, V. (eds.). Teoria geral de sistemas: uma abordagem multidisciplinar do conhecimento. 1^a ed. Florianópolis-SC: EGC (Programa de Pós-Graduação em Engenharia e Gestão do Conhecimento - UFSC), 2007. [book edited by the students after a peer review process of papers in a General Systems Theory course].
  
• NUNES, L.E.P. Revisão pelos pares na aprendizagem de Análise e Projeto de Sistemas: Um estudo de caso. 2005. 123 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia de Produção) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Orientador: Vinícius Medina Kern.
  
• CORREA NETO, Á.S. Análise de requisitos da revisão pelos pares na aprendizagem. 2004. 93 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em Engenharia de Produção) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Orientador: Vinícius Medina Kern.
• SARAIVA, L.M. Proposta metodológica de aplicação da revisão pelos pares como instrumento pedagógico para a Educação Ambiental. 2003. 154 f. Tese (Doutorado em Engenharia de Produção) - Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina. Orientador: Marcus Polette.
  

Useful links:

• My CV in the Brazilian S&T platform, frequently updated (to locate papers, search for "peer review" and "revisão pelos pares")
• Peer review by Laura Guertin, Penn State (what is peer review, why and how to use it in education)
• Ed Gehringer's PG (Web-based peer review) and Expertiza (using peer review to develop resuable learning objects)
  
• MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
• Online Collaborative Learning in Higher Education at Central Queensland University, Australia
  
• ScholOnto (Scholarly Ontologies Project at KMI/UK, see also at Mondeca)
• Peer Review Education Resource from Sense About Science
  
• Peer review - Wikipedia
• Flawed research protected by the peer review culture (see the interesting example of how a spurious conclusion that the Boston mortgage market discriminated against minorities led to government relaxing the lending rules, which in turn played an important role in the U.S. financial crisis since 2008)
  

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