Learning without Doing

Abstract

The historical undervaluing of skills in business and management degrees has led to a widening gap between the skills that employers require and those that graduates provide. Given the resources needed to develop skills and the increasing pressures on higher education, new ideas are needed to close the gap. This article presents a test of a peer-review method of developing oral presentation skills. The experimental results clearly show that the peer-review method leads to significantly improved presentation performance and as such may be valuable in enhancing skills within curricula where separate presentation skills courses are not viable.