Calibrated Peer Review Instructions and FAQs Why do we want you to use CPR CPR allows you to write and critically read reports on statistical analyses In the real world this is how you will work with statistics No boss is going to ask you to do 4 in the book and then check your numerical answer in the back of the book Your boss will ask you to analyze some data and make a report at a meeting It s not enough to know how to calculate a statistic or to use SPSS you also need to be able to explain what your results mean You will also read about statistics in many different forms in your real life in newspapers doctors offices in reports at work You need to be a critical consumer of these statistics because not all of them mean what the author thinks they mean One of the main goals of this course is to make you a critical reader writer and thinker CPR is an excellent tool for this purpose How do you use CPR Go to http cpr ics purdue edu CPRLocal Log in with your Purdue username and password The first time you use CPR you will need to complete the tutorial and pretest You will then be able to see your assignment and get to work CPR has four deadlines per assignment and three of these dates are important the text entry deadline the assignment end time which is the peer and self reviews deadline and the request for regrade deadline one week after the assignment ends The Writing portion of the assignment Enter your text using the HTML formatting instructions No graphs or SPSS output can be pasted into the document Only text Do not use inequality symbols or because HTML reserves these for other uses It is a good idea to write it in Word first and then paste in a copy so that you have a backup copy in case something goes wrong Sometimes CPR will time out if you take too long to type in the text and then you might lose your work BE SURE TO HIT SUBMIT in order to have CPR accept your work 1 HTML Tags for formatting your text B text B I text I SUB text SUB SUP text SUP P text P Displays the enclosed text in boldface Displays the enclosed text in italics Displays the enclosed text subscripted Displays the enclosed text superscripted Defines a paragraph You don t actually type the word text in the middle That s where you write your paragraph If you want to include a link to a website here is how you make that a clickable link a href url text that you want to appear as link a So for example if your url was http www stat purdue edu gundlach stat301 and you wanted the title of the site STAT 301 Course Website to appear as a link you would type the following a href http www stat purdue edu gundlach stat301 STAT 301 Course Website a and that would link you directly to the website through the title The Calibration part of the assignment After the text entering deadline you will do the calibration part of the assignment You will be given 3 assignments written and previously evaluated by instructors to evaluate using some specific grading questions You will have to answer the yes no questions and then also assign a 0 10 score at the end You will be judged on how closely your evaluating skills match those of the instructor so do not rush through this part For the overall rating count up the number of YES answers you gave to the 10 grading questions to assign a score between 0 and 10 If you do not do a good enough job on the calibration part of the assignment you will have to repeat it until you get better Each time you have to repeat a calibration your calibration grade goes down and the system rate you a poor reviewer Missing the calibrations deadline does not have a penalty but your instructor will know if you miss the calibration deadline Calibrations can be done any time before the peer review deadline 2 The Reviewing part of the assignment After you do the calibrations you can immediately move on to the review part of the assignment It is recommended that you keep your original assignment and all SPSS output handy so that you will be able to judge how well the other students analyzed their data You will be given 3 anonymous peers papers to evaluate Use the same skills you used on the calibration Be very careful and thoughtful Your peers will not know who evaluated their papers but your instructor will know You are graded on how consistently you grade each paper compared to the other reviewers After you have done your 3 peer reviews you will be asked to evaluate your own paper Self Assessment Be thorough and honest You will be judged on how closely your evaluation of your work matches that of the three peers who evaluated your work Grade reports After all the evaluations are finished and the last deadline is past you will receive a grade report by logging back into CPR This grade report will tell you how you did on each part of the assignment and show you the comments made by your peer reviewers If you have any concerns about the grade reports in the week after the reviewing is due please e mail your lecturer with a detailed explanation of the problem and what you propose as a solution An e mail stating I think I should have gotten a higher score because I worked really hard on this will not help you Cite specific parts of your paper and explain why it should be given a higher score A good example of a detailed e mail request welcomed by the lecturers would be Reviewer 2 said that I did not have the correct 5 number summary but on line 5 of my report I state the 5 number summary and it is the same as in the answer key NOTE If you are asking us to review the grade on your paper you are essentially asking us to grade your paper from scratch and to assign a fair grade not necessarily a higher grade Your lecturer will assign the text a rating we feel it deserves based on the grading questions This usually means that your overall grade will go up if your reviewers did not do a good job but it could mean that your overall grade goes down Make sure that you are fairly confident about what you are asking us to check If we feel the text deserves a different rating the grades of your reviewers may also be affected by this change No grade is final until about one week after the reviewing is over Important Notes The instructors and t a s will be participating in the system as anonymous students also We will be peer evaluating your work and you will …