"Pairs Check is a Reciprocal Peer Teaching activity that is particularly useful when students are working on mastery-oriented problems. For the IDEA, pairs of students listen to each other’s work and provide their partner with coaching and feedback. It is a useful exercise for checking understanding, giving and accepting constructive criticism, praising what is done well, and adjusting incorrect information. Trying out ideas by explaining concepts and hearing perspectives of others both assist the learning process.In this IDEA, everyone benefits from the peer work. Those who are having difficulty learn from those who have a better grasp of the material or are more proficient at the skill. Those who are more advanced are more likely to retain the information better due to the repetition and practice of teaching to someone else. One important step in this process is for students giving assistance not to provide their partners with the correct answers before the students recognize answers for themselves. The concept is to provide assistance with actions that guide toward the correct answer, not to provide the answer itself." — Teaching for Learning, Major CH, Harris MS, Zakrajsek T, 2016
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