title: Teaching resources. Using web-based discussion forums as a model of the peer-review process and a tool for assessment.
abstract: This Teaching Resource describes how to use an online asynchronous discussion as a mechanism to introduce students to the peer-review process, as well as to assess student performance and understanding. This method was applied to a graduate course on signal transduction and the Teaching Resource includes a syllabus, detailed plan for incorporating the online discussion, sample journal club questions, and sample student responses to the discussion forum, faculty responses, and student revisions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pharmacology and Systems Therapeutics, Mount Sinai School of Medicine, New York, NY 10029, USA. ravi.iyengar@mssm.edu
authors.forename: Sherry L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Jenkins
authors.forename: Ravi
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Iyengar
authors.forename: Maria A
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Diverse-Pierluissi
authors.forename: Andrew M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Chan
authors.forename: Lakshmi A
authors.initials: LA
authors.lastname: Devi
authors.forename: Eric A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Sobie
authors.forename: Adrian T
authors.initials: AT
authors.lastname: Ting
authors.forename: Daniel C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Weinstein
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001695:Biology / Q000193:education* / Q000379:methods; D003194:Computer-Assisted Instruction; D003479:Curriculum; D020375:Education, Distance; D005178:Faculty; D006801:Humans; D009862:Online Systems; D010380:Peer Review; D015398:Signal Transduction; D012984:Software; D013334:Students; D013663:Teaching; D014584:User-Computer Interface