Kritik

Kritik, developed by Kritik Education, is a tech-enabled peer assessment platform designed to enhance student engagement and facilitate timely and personalized feedback in educational institutions. It aims to provide a peer learning experience, save time on grading, and offer world-class support for instructors. The product is targeted at a wide range of educational institutions, including universities, colleges, and K-12 schools. According to the vendor, Kritik is used by professionals and industries in the fields of education, business, psychology, music, data science, and engineering.

Key Features

Peer Learning Experience: According to the vendor, Kritik enables students to provide critical feedback on their peers' work and evaluate their peers' evaluations, fostering a collaborative learning environment. The platform utilizes AI-powered calibration to ensure grading fairness, while anonymity allows all students to share their perspectives.

Timely and Personalized Feedback: The vendor claims that Kritik allows instructors to provide quick feedback for any class size, and students receive multiple evaluations to learn from. The anonymous peer evaluation process is said to ensure bias-free feedback, motivating students to support each other's learning.

Save Time Grading: The vendor asserts that Kritik's bias-free peer evaluation reduces the grading workload for instructors, allowing them to focus on facilitating and mentoring students. The platform utilizes AI-powered calibration to minimize grading disputes, and the anonymity feature encourages students to provide constructive feedback.

World-class Support: Kritik provides comprehensive support through a team of Instructional Designers and onboarding specialists, as claimed by the vendor. Instructors and students have access to 24/7 Live Chat support throughout the semester.

Strengthening Course Concepts: According to the vendor, Kritik's peer evaluations challenge and develop students' thinking over time, helping them hone their soft skills. Students learn to give critical and actionable feedback, filling learning gaps and introducing new ideas.

Developing Real-life Skillsets: The vendor states that Kritik's feedback processes prepare students for their future careers by teaching them to give critical feedback that improves the quality of submissions. Evaluations also help students develop communication and leadership skills.

Learning by Evaluating: Kritik broadens students' horizons as they learn by reading evaluations from their peers, according to the vendor. The feedback provided is said to elevate the learning experience, and students develop effective communication skills through this process.

Customizable Rubrics Template: Kritik offers ready-to-use rubric templates that can be customized based on the course requirements, as claimed by the vendor. Rubrics can be as detailed or as simple as desired, and Instructional Designer support is available for rubric setup.

Calibration Activity: Instructors can set a benchmark to align students' grading power with their own, ensuring consistency in evaluations, according to the vendor. Grading power recalibrates as students do more evaluations, reducing grading disputes and maintaining clear expectations.

Grading Power: The vendor states that students build grading power by completing evaluations, with better quality evaluations resulting in higher grading power. Grading power determines the contribution of evaluations to the final grade.