Checking for Peer Review Worksheet
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How can we check if a scientific article is reliable? Well, the easiest way is to make sure the author is citing peer-reviewed journals. Peer-reviewed journals are the gold standard for scientific information, and in this video, I show you how to spot them in everyday articles.
See below for more information.
See below for more information.
This worksheet is designed to accompany my YouTube video on Checking for Peer Review.
The worksheet includes:
The download is a .zip file that contains a Word document and PDF of the worksheet.
The worksheet includes:
- Space for students to take notes with prompts based on Harvard's Project Zero thinking routine 'Take Note'.
- Simple recall questions to reinforce the steps in the process of peer review.
- Directions for students to check whether information on specific websites is based on peer-reviewed sources.
- More challenging discussion questions on when it could be preferable to use other reliable sources of information, such as government agencies or interviews with experts, instead of peer review.
- A list of highly regarded peer-reviewed journals, sorted into discipline, chosen based on their impact factor according to Google Scholar.
- Directions to find information online that IS and IS NOT based on peer-reviewed sources, and to discuss what they find in small groups.
- An answer key for questions that are not specific to individual students.
The download is a .zip file that contains a Word document and PDF of the worksheet.