14 page PDF. This would seem to be unsurprising: "peer evaluation closely correlates with the grades the teacher assigned." Correlation improves if the number of assessors is increased to three. Also, "other conditions can significantly enhance the correlation between teacher and peer evaluations, such as random selection of assessors and assessees, peer assessment being voluntary instead of compulsory, and peer raters being involved in developing the rating criteria." The latter condition makes assessment more like following a recipe - you follow along the criteria and ask whether it was satisfied. Expert instructors, though, do this intuitively, without the need for a checklist, which leads me to wonder what the speed difference between peer assessors and expert assessment.
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