IDEC 2022 Virtual Annual Conference
Reconnect + Recalibrate March 1-4 ▪
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Scholarship Category: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Content Area: Pedagogy
Betty R. Torrell
The CritBurger
A Method of Peer-to-Peer Assessment in a Design Drawing Course In the book, “The Crit,” the authors Rosie Parnell & Rachel Sara, refer to the crit as “too often a thing to survive rather than an event to learn from,” and continue that, “it can be developed as a celebratory and empowering experience.” Although speaking largely of the crit as an important element of the traditional architectural education, their take on the crit and its purpose is valid for interior design education as well.
What Turns Experience Into Learning? The Critburger turns the crit into a form of reflection. In research from Boud, Keogh, and Walker (1985)... “It is important to draw upon learners’ prior experience and to provide opportunities for them to be actively engaged in what they are learning…That experience alone is not the key to learning”…”reflection is a vital element in any form of learning and can take the form of number of activities,” including “to share other peoples’ ideas on an experience.”
What’s a CritBurger?
• The present form of the Critburger as an online breakout session was developed in Spring 2020 as a response to the need to create virtual peer-to-peer studentdriven discussion and engagement in a studio-based courses when classes moved online in response to COVID protocols. The CritBurger was added to a range of multimodal activities including visual, auditory, reading and writing and kinesthetic (VARK) activities and replaced the traditional pin-up sessions.
• As a type of reflection, small groups of students, usually four to five, present their current design drawing exercises to each other in breakout groups online to discuss and assess each other’s work. • In the online breakout groups students present their work to their peers for discussion using the targeted prompts. Then each student selects one other student’s work in the group and uses the Critburger template to document their own comments on that student’s work and submits their comments online using the Critburger Template for grading.