Peer Review
Contents
Key Stage 4
Meaning
Peer review is when scientists check one another's work to make sure the method, results and conclusions are valid.
About Peer Review
- Peer review is an essential process in science to check whether the ideas claimed by a scientist are true.
- Peer review is a useful process to prevent the false reporting or poor methodology of a group of researchers becoming accepted.
- Before peer review the scientific community does not accept a claim as being true.
- Unfortunately the media often report on scientific papers before they are peer reviewed giving the false impression that something is established science, when it is not.
References
AQA
- Peer review, page 1, GCSE Combined Science; The Revision Guide, CGP, AQA
- Peer review, page 218, GCSE Physics, Hodder, AQA
- Peer review, pages 1, 52, GCSE Biology; The Revision Guide, CGP, AQA
- Peer review, pages 122-3, GCSE Physics; Student Book, Collins, AQA
- Peer review, pages 173, 187, 272, GCSE Combined Science Trilogy 2, Hodder, AQA
- Peer review, pages 230, 244, GCSE Chemistry, Hodder, AQA
- Peer review, pages 304-5, GCSE Chemistry; Student Book, Collins, AQA
- Peer-review, page 1, GCSE Combined Science Trilogy; Physics, CGP, AQA
- Peer-review, page 2, GCSE Biology, CGP, AQA
- Peer-review, page 2, GCSE Combined Science Trilogy; Biology, CGP, AQA
- Peer-review, page 2, GCSE Physics; The Complete 9-1 Course for AQA, CGP, AQA
Edexcel
- Peer review, page 2, GCSE Biology; The Revision Guide, CGP, Edexcel
- Peer review, page 2, GCSE Chemistry, CGP, Edexcel
- Peer review, pages 1, 78, GCSE Combined Science; The Revision Guide, CGP, Edexcel
- Peer review, pages 2, 15, GCSE Chemistry; The Revision Guide, CGP, Edexcel
- Peer-review, page 2, GCSE Biology, CGP, Edexcel
- Peer-review, page 2, GCSE Physics, CGP, Edexcel