Here’s an idea I’d implement if I were still teaching:
Have your students grade each other’s papers, anonymously.
First, they have to establish critiera and justify them, then they have to grade the paper they’re randomly assigned accordingly.
You grade them according to how well they graded the other’s paper.
Hopefully, this will counteract the ‘likes’ and casual ‘thumbs up’ tendency and develop true critical thinking about what they read — critical reading.
It should also improve their own papers. (Suggest, to the clueless, that they use their own justified criteria while writing, and before submitting, their future papers.)
