Grant Review Feedback: Appropriateness and Usefulness.

ABSTRACT: The primary goal of the peer review of research grant proposals is to evaluate their quality for the funding agency. An important secondary goal is to provide constructive feedback to applicants for their resubmissions. However, little is known about whether review feedback achieves this goal. In this paper, we present a multi-methods analysis of responses from grant applicants regarding their perceptions of the effectiveness and appropriateness of peer review feedback they received from grant submissions. Overall, 56-60% of applicants determined the feedback to be appropriate (fair, well-written, and well-informed), although their judgments were more favorable if their recent application was funded. Importantly, independent of funding success, women found the feedback better written than

SUBMITTER: Gallo SA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7969534 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature