USING PEER REVIEW IN THE INSTRUCTION OF COMPUTER GRAPHICS : A Case Study of Logo Design Activity for Taiwanese Students

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The main purpose of the study is to explore the effects of using peer review in the instruction of computer graphics. Four students, two with higher skill achievement and two with lower, were selected to serve as the cases in the study. They were required to design a logo, to amend the designs of others and to provide comments on each design. After receiving peers' amendments and comments, the designers were allowed to complete their respective designs. Each designer was then interviewed to ascertain their perception and degree of acceptance of this instructional method. The result reveals all four cases to view this approach favorably and to consider it as a helpful aid to improving their visual thinking, especially for the students with lower skill achievement. This finding indicates that the utilization of peer amendment in the instruction of computer graphic design may be a good way of stimulating designers' creativity and expanding their capacity for visual thinking.