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=== Pre-course Assignment ===
== Pre-course Assignment ==
To gauge the baseline peer review ability of participants, we recommend having the participants complete a pre-course assignment. This assignment can also be used as a guide when assigning the workshop groups so that the groups end up being more evenly balanced in regards to experience and knowledge.


For our course, we request four manuscripts that have passed the peer review stage, but have not yet been published from our journal partner. If not working with a journal, any published paper or pre-print could also work for this. In order to simulate a “real” peer review process, the participants are then asked to write a review for one of the four manuscripts as if they were getting the request directly from the journal. They then have two weeks to complete the review and are able to request an extension if needed.
=== Rationale ===


=== Post-course Assignment ===
* Gauge the baseline peer review ability of participants
The post-course assignment is used to assess how much the participant has learned from the course. We recommend that each participant be assigned one of the four pre-course assignments that they have not previously reviewed. Ideally, based on the timeframe of the course, the manuscripts that the participants have reviewed for the pre and post course assignments will be published shortly after the completion of the course. This way the participants will be able to compare their own reviews to the published reviews for the papers (if partnering with an open review journal).
* Baseline ability can be used as a guide to help with assigning the workshop groups
 
=== Assignment description ===
We request four manuscripts from the partner journal that have passed the peer review stage, but have not yet been published from our journal partner. If not working without a journal partner, any published paper or pre-print would also be sufficient. In order to simulate a “real” peer review process, the participants are then asked to write a review for one of the four manuscripts as if they were getting the request directly from the journal. They then have two weeks to complete the review and are able to request an extension if needed.
 
== Post-course Assignment ==
 
=== Rationale ===
 
* Assess participants' growth from the course
 
=== Assignment description ===
We use the same four manuscripts that were distributed as the pre-course assignment. For the post-course assignment, we recommend that each participant be assigned one of the four pre-course assignments that they have not previously reviewed.  
 
The teaching team provides feedback on the post-course assignment following submission.
 
Ideally, based on the timeframe of the course, the manuscripts that the participants have reviewed for the pre and post course assignments will be published shortly after the completion of the course. This way the participants will be able to compare their own reviews to the published reviews for the papers (if partnering with an open review journal).

Revision as of 10:54, 26 May 2025

Pre-course Assignment

Rationale

  • Gauge the baseline peer review ability of participants
  • Baseline ability can be used as a guide to help with assigning the workshop groups

Assignment description

We request four manuscripts from the partner journal that have passed the peer review stage, but have not yet been published from our journal partner. If not working without a journal partner, any published paper or pre-print would also be sufficient. In order to simulate a “real” peer review process, the participants are then asked to write a review for one of the four manuscripts as if they were getting the request directly from the journal. They then have two weeks to complete the review and are able to request an extension if needed.

Post-course Assignment

Rationale

  • Assess participants' growth from the course

Assignment description

We use the same four manuscripts that were distributed as the pre-course assignment. For the post-course assignment, we recommend that each participant be assigned one of the four pre-course assignments that they have not previously reviewed.

The teaching team provides feedback on the post-course assignment following submission.

Ideally, based on the timeframe of the course, the manuscripts that the participants have reviewed for the pre and post course assignments will be published shortly after the completion of the course. This way the participants will be able to compare their own reviews to the published reviews for the papers (if partnering with an open review journal).

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