TIEE RESEARCH REVIEW FORM (ver Oct 2007)Page 1 of 2

TIEE Review Form – Research Articles

Title of Paper:

First Author:

Your name*:

*Reviews are anonymous – this is for our records

Please review the Research Article and complete this form, providing comments on each of the 8 sections as indicated below. Upon completion of the review, send this form as an e-mail attachment to the TIEE Managing Editor ().

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Please note:TIEE is a work-in-progress, and we always welcome suggestions, critiques, and feedback. Do not hesitate to let us know your thoughts on improving the review process or any other aspects of TIEE.

Overview

Starting with Volume 5, TIEEnow includes a new section called “Research”; TIEEIssues and Experiments will be in a section titled “Practice”. The research articles are outcomes of education research relevant to the TIEE audience, which are mostly college/university ecology faculty and also some high school teachers.

As with Issues and Experiments, we will work with authors to help them improve their submission. Please keep in mind that this is the first time many of these faculty have written an education research paper. We hope you can offer suggestions such as specific papers to reference or similar studies they might read. In addition, one of our intentions is that these papers will be a first step towards publication of expanded studies in more traditional education journals. Therefore, the research in these papers may be preliminary to a larger study. Authors will be given your comments and revisions will be returned to you within a month for a second review.

1.Title: < Is the title clear, concise, and accurate? >

2.Abstract: The abstract should be about 200 words and complete without reference to the text. It should state concisely the goals, methods, principal results, and major conclusions of the paper. Key words must also be listed. < Does the abstract fit this description?>

3.Introduction <Does the Introduction concisely put the study into a larger context, including core references? Is the purpose of the study and question(s) clearly stated? Is the specific context (e.g. research environment) clear? Is the reader well prepared for the methods and results sections?>

4.Methods: <Are all the methods clearly and concisely described? Are they appropriate? Anything critical missing (e.g. references to a method)? Are any human subjects protocols/procedures clear?>

5.Results: <Is this a clear, concise and logical description of the results in words plus figures and/or tables? Are tables and figures clearly referred to in the text? There should be no interpretation of findings here.>

6.Discussion: <Is there a brief ‘nutshell’ description of the main findings and their importance/interest? Do the authors logically interpret the findings described in the results section, compare them to relevant studies, and discuss important limitations of the study? Do the authors expand upon the context outlined in the introduction?>

7.Practitioner Reflections: Does the author(s) reflect on how their thinking about teaching/learning has changed as a result of the project?

8.Acknowledgements:Should include financial and other support for the research. May include the origin of ideas, inspirational people, and other helpful sources or information>

9.References: <Are all references in the text listed here? Are there references here not included in the text? Do they follow format examples provided on the next page?

References Section: Format Examples

Article in Journal

Fryxell, J. M., and A. R. E. Sinclair. 1988. Causes and consequences of migration by large herbivores. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 3:237–41.

Books

Anderson, R. M., and R. S. May. 1991. Infectious diseases of humans: dynamics and control. Second edition. OxfordUniversity Press, Oxford, England, UK.

Wright, S. 1978. Evolution and the genetics of populations. Volume 4: Variability within and among natural populations. University of Chicago Press, Chicago, Illinois, USA.

Article in Book

May, R. M., and R. S. Anderson. 1983. Parasite-host coevolution. Pages 186-206 in: Futuyma, D. J., and M. Slatkin, editors. Coevolution. Third edition. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachussets, USA.

Websites

Smith, R. S. My trip to India. Viewed 14 Dec 1999. (

Bird Ecology Society (BES). 1999. Ecology of birds at the turn of the millennium.Viewed 14 Dec 1999.(

GVU’s 8th WWW user survey. (nd). Viewed 8 Aug 2000.(www.cc.gatech.edu/gvu/usersurveys/survey 1997–10)