The SWoRD teams at the University of Pittsburgh and at the University of Missouri, Columbia perform empirical investigations to improve writing and reviewing.

Publications and Presentations

Cho, K., Schunn, C., & Wilson, R. (2006). Validity and Reliability of Scaffolded Peer Assessment of Writing from Instructor and Student Perspectives. Journal of Educational Psychology, 98(4), 891-901. [PDF] 

Cho, K., Schunn, C., & Charney, D. (2006). Commenting on writing: Typology and perceived helpfulness of comments from novice peer reviewers and subject matter experts. Written Communication, 23(3), 260-294. [PDF] 

Cho, K., Chung, R., King, W., & Schunn, C. D. (in press). Creating a peer-based computer-supported knowledge refinement process. Communications of the ACM. [PDF]

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. (2007). Scaffolded Writing and Rewriting in the Discipline: A Web-based Reciprocal Peer Review System. Computers and Education, 48(3), 409-426. [PDF] 

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. (2006). Does writing improve as a function of number of reviewers. Proceedings of the 28th Annual COnference of Cognitive Science Society, Vancouver, Canada. LEA. 

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. D. (under review). Optimal number of raters for agreement and performance.

Cho, K., Chung, R., King, W., & Schunn, C. D. (2006). Creating Peer-Based Knowledge Refineries. Proceedings of 2006 Academy of Management Meeting, August 11-16, Atlanta, Georgia.

Chung, R., Bateman, P., & Cho, K. (2005). Expertise gaps and profiles: An integrated view of expertise on knowledge transfer. Proceedings of IS-CORE 2005 Workshop of International Conference of Information Systems, Dec 11-14 2005. Las Vegas

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. (2004). Scaffolded writing and reviewing in the discipline. Proceedings of IEEE iCALT, Joensuu, Finland.

Schunn, C., & Cho, K. (2003). Proceedings of EARLI.

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. (2004). You write better when you get feedback from multiple peers than from an expert. Proceedings of the 26th Annual Conference of Cognitive Science Society, Chicago. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum.

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. (2003). Successful factors in networked collaboration. In the Proceedings of the 25th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. Mahwah, NJ: Erlbaum

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. D. (2003). Battling the tyranny of the thousands with a SWoRD: Scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline. ED-Media 2003, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. D. (2003). Validity and Reliability of Peer Assessments with a Missing Data Estimation Technique. In the Proceedings of ED-Media 2003 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Cho, K., & Schunn, C. D. (2003). Demonstration of SWoRD: Scaffolded writing and rewriting in the discipline. In the Proceedings of ED-Media 2003 Honolulu, Hawaii, USA.

Schunn, C. D., & Cho, K. (2002). A web-based system for reciprocal evaluation of student paper writing. Paper presented at the 32nd Annual Meeting of the Society for Computers in Psychology. Kansas City, MO (November, 2002).