Each week, two students led a discussion in class on the week's readings and ideas -- and those students determined whether or not their fellow students had met the standards.
While the students are ending up with As, many of them are doing so only because they redid assignments that were judged not sufficient to the task on the first try
didn't complain,
They reworked their essays,
"peer pressure
changed the dynamic from "a single teaching-student interaction to multiple teacher-student/student-student interactions
equal plane."
I wanted to give the feedback." But reducing the feedback to a letter grade? "It's intellectually stultifying.