Received: Accepted: Published: June 15, 2015Ĭopyright: © 2015 Sattler et al. PLoS ONE 10(6):Īcademic Editor: Tammy Clifford, Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health, CANADA The results underscore the benefits of and need for specialized peer reviewer training.Ĭitation: Sattler DN, McKnight PE, Naney L, Mathis R (2015) Grant Peer Review: Improving Inter-Rater Reliability with Training. The findings suggest that both experienced and novice reviewers who had not received the type of training developed in this study may not have appropriate understanding of the definitions and meaning for each value of the rating scale and that experienced reviewers may overestimate their knowledge of the rating scale. The increase in reliability for experienced reviewers is notable because it is commonly assumed that reviewers-especially those with experience-have good understanding of the grant review rating scale. For both novice and experienced reviewers, the training video increased scoring accuracy (the percentage of scores that reflect the true rating scale values), inter-rater reliability, and the amount of time reading the review criteria compared to the no video condition.

research universities watched the training video we produced and assigned scores to the National Institutes of Health scoring criteria proposal summary descriptions. Seventy-five Public Health professors from U.S. Enhancing reviewer training may improve the reliability and accuracy of research grant proposal scoring and funding recommendations. This study developed and evaluated a brief training program for grant reviewers that aimed to increase inter-rater reliability, rating scale knowledge, and effort to read the grant review criteria.

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