Pitch2Peer motivates students: after all, students are invested in showing good quality work to each other. However, it can foster an atmosphere of competition. Most students rather enjoyed this, but from a pedagogical viewpoint, I felt it was necessary to keep this somewhat in check.
Peer feedback motivates, but it should not create too much of a competitive atmosphere in the classroom.
If Pitch2Peer is combined with group work,student get to learn practical skills from one another, like presenting findings in the form of a poster, audiovisual essay, video, etc.
In order to make the experience as accessible for students as possible, we did not assess the feedback. I do wonder how this would have affected the quality of peer-to-peer feedback. Would students hold back on constructive criticism for fear of negatively influencing each other’s grades? It would be interesting te explore this question in future.