Peer evaluation of academic presentations by Japanese graduate students: Qualitative evaluation

This study reports an investigation on the qualitative data of Japanese graduate students' evaluation on peers' academic presentation in English which is designed to be part of a collaborative learning project. A total of 772 peer comments was extracted from 265 peer evaluation on 10 group presentations as the dataset of this investigation. Results indicate that students' focuses are on the quality of slides including figures, tables and texts, the understanding of the technical content of the research presented by peers though students come from various laboratories, and peers' delivery abilities such as eye contact, reading from prepared notes and rate/speed of speech. The data also shows that students gave more positive comments than negative ones and that the suggestion type of comment is the least in terms of the quantity.