Pre- and Post-Course Assignments: Post-course assignment feedback (Email)
| Recipients: | Each individual participant that submitted a post-course assignment |
| Subject: | [Peerspectives] Post-course assessment feedback & forwarding your contact info to [Partner Journal] |
| Attachments: | Feedback form; participant's assignment submission |
| Email text body: | Dear Peerspectives Participant,
Thank you for participating in the Peerspectives course during the [Spring / Summer / Fall / Winter] Semester [YYYY]! As promised, we are piloting an initiative to provide feedback on the quality of your post-course assessment. Of course, your feedback comes from the perspective of your instructors who were neither actually the editors nor authors of the manuscripts. As a reminder, as long as it was clear to us that you put in some effort, the quality score of your post-course assessment had no bearing on whether you passed the course. As you know, the manuscript assigned to you for the post-course assessment was not matched to your specific area of expertise. Of course, some of you may have received an article closely aligned with your subject area, but this occurred by chance. In a real-world peer review setting, editors typically assign manuscripts to subject-matter experts invited to review because of their specific expertise. We have considered this limitation in our quality assessment and placed much less emphasis on subject-matter-related details when providing feedback. Several of you explicitly noted areas where you lacked expertise or suggested that the editor seek additional feedback from other reviewers. Editors appreciate such statements, and we strongly encourage all of you to incorporate this practice in your future reviews. As a final note, as announced during the course, we would like to submit contact information of those of you with sufficiently high-quality scores in this post-course assessment to [Partner Journal] for future review assignments. Only if you do not agree with us sharing your name and email address, please send us a reply email to opt out by [MONTH DD, YYYY]. Wishing you all the best for the future and many happy peer review experiences! Sincerely, [Your Name(s)] The Peerspectives Team |