Peer review is an important part of the scholarly communication process but one in which students receive relatively little formal training.  Students in the University of Pennsylvania's graduate-level chemical information course are required to prepare a guide to the literature on a subject of their choice, with the goal of teaching someone to search Penn's resources.  The addition of double-blind peer review to the project, in which students reviewed one another's term projects as though they were scientific reviewers for a journal, gave the students practice assessing one another's work.  The assignment had the unexpected result of improving the overall quality of the term projects.

Blind assessment:The unexpected benefits of peer review in a classroom setting

243rd National Meeting (2012)

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