title: Learning About and Benefiting From Peer Review: A Course Assignment for Doctoral Students at Two Different Universities.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Peer review is an expectation of PhD-prepared nurses but a lack of evidence in the best methods to train students is of concern.
  
  
  METHODS
  Guided by the ADDIE (Analysis, Design, Development, Implementation, and Evaluation) model, faculty at two universities developed, implemented, and evaluated a peer review assignment for 22 second-year PhD nursing students. Quantitative and qualitative data were collected and analyzed using descriptive statistics and content analysis.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Students reported the process of peer review was beneficial (82%) because it informed their own writing (59%), assisted them to read more critically (73%), and increased their appreciation of the role of peer review in the revision process (77%). Giving constructive feedback was difficult for students, but the feedback they received was helpful.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Peer review is important to the development of science and an expectation of PhD-prepared nurses. Methods to include peer review in education are needed. [J Nurs Educ. 2016;55(6):342-344.].
authors.forename: Kristen A
authors.initials: KA
authors.lastname: Sethares
authors.forename: Nancy S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Morris
mesh_terms: D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005246:Feedback; D006801:Humans; D017145:Models, Educational; D010380:Peer Review; D011932:Reading; D013338:Students, Nursing / Q000523:psychology*; D014495:Universities; D014956:Writing