Peer Review Report - Guidelines

While preparing your peer review report, attend to both the components and academic writing standards required, as follows.

Required Components

· Are all of the critical components present? If not, recommend further information to include.

· Is the analysis or outline critical? Does it relate to the concepts from the course?

Grammar, Style, and Citations

· Are there any grammatical or spelling problems?

· Were citations included and properly formatted?

· Does the writing flow well? Is it easy to follow?

Peer Review Report -GUIDELINES

As part of your final project, you will provide a critique of the research proposal for one of your peers, with the intent to assist your partner to improve his or her mixed methods research design:

1. Share your research project outline with your partner.

2. Read Table 1 from the Lesson 12 Course Notes and use criteria 1, 2, and 6 to critique your partner’s research project. (3 marks)

o Criterion 1: The Merit of Mixed Methods,

o Criterion 2: The Rationale for Using a Mixed Methods approach

o Criterion 6: Specification of the Type of Mixed Methods

1. Choose two other criteria from Table 1 in the Lesson 12 course notes to further evaluate your partner’s final project. In this question you could address as an example, criterion 3 (Literature Review) and criterion 7 (Data Collection and Analysis) from Table 1. (2 marks)

Provide your report to your peer, including strengths and weaknesses, and points to be considered for possible improvements of the research proposal. (3 marks)

Before you submit your Peer Review Report, ensure that it complies with the standards of academic writing: clear, accurate, with proper in-text citations and a list of references in APA style. (2 marks)

Submit the peer review report you wrote for your partner together with the peer review report received from her through the link provided by your Open Learning Faculty Member.

 While preparing your peer review report, attend to both the components and academic writing standards required, as follows.

Required Components

· Are all of the critical components present? If not, recommend further information to include.

· Is the analysis or outline critical? Does it relate to the concepts from the course?

Grammar, Style, and Citations

· Are there any grammatical or spelling problems?

· Were citations included and properly formatted?

· Does the writing flow well? Is it easy to follow?

Peer Review Report -GUIDELINES

As part of your final project, you will provide a critique of the research proposal for one of your peers, with the intent to assist your partner to improve his or her mixed methods research design:

1. Share your research project outline with your partner.

2. Read Table 1 from the Lesson 12 Course Notes and use criteria 1, 2, and 6 to critique your partner’s research project. (3 marks)

o Criterion 1: The Merit of Mixed Methods,

o Criterion 2: The Rationale for Using a Mixed Methods approach

o Criterion 6: Specification of the Type of Mixed Methods

1. Choose two other criteria from Table 1 in the Lesson 12 course notes to further evaluate your partner’s final project. In this question you could address as an example, criterion 3 (Literature Review) and criterion 7 (Data Collection and Analysis) from Table 1. 

Provide your report to your peer, including strengths and weaknesses, and points to be considered for possible improvements of the research proposal. 

Before you submit your Peer Review Report, ensure that it complies with the standards of academic writing: clear, accurate, with proper in-text citations and a list of references in APA style

Submit the peer review report you wrote for your partner together with the peer review report received from her through the link provided by your Open Learning Faculty Member.