Case Study: Michigan State University improves term paper feedback with Kritik

Building Term Papers Through Kritik

Dr. Kaston Anderson-Carpenter, an Assistant Professor at Michigan State University, faced the challenge of helping his behavioral psychology students manage large term paper assignments. Students were often ill-prepared to work independently on a project over several months, and providing personalized feedback at every stage was too time-consuming for a single instructor. He turned to the vendor Kritik and its peer assessment platform to address this.

Kritik's solution allowed Dr. Anderson-Carpenter to break the term paper into smaller scaffolded activities, such as annotated bibliographies and outlines. Students provided each other with comprehensive peer feedback based on the instructor's rubric. The results were highly effective; students gave feedback on par with the instructor's, often catching things he had missed. This process improved the quality of the final term papers and equipped students with valuable evaluative skills. The students found the value they received from Kritik to be well worth the cost.

Michigan State University

Kaston Anderson-Carpenter

Assistant Professor of Psychology