An example to illustrate how the first criterion, paragraphs, was scored is shown in Table 1.
The rest of the criteria for evaluating students’ writing performance can be found in the Appendix of the study.
In the same context, students’ peer feedback is defined as the direct and indirect corrections and general comments that students
provided to their peers’ work. Direct corrective feedback took the form of identifying both the error and providing the correct form. Indirect
corrective feedback consisted of an indication of the error and its category (Beuningen, Jong, & Kuiken, 2008). The corrections were based on
a “feedback code sheet” using symbols (Fig.1). Peer feedback came as a result of students being paired up by the teacher to share their work