Appendix G: Peer Review Form

To be able to use this form you should be assigned and given access as a Reviewer. NIMSS will not allow you to view, complete and submit the form if you are not a Reviewer. You also need to be a registered NIMSS User. Click here for instructions on how to complete the Registration Form.

If you are a Reviewer and unable to submit the form successfully, please contact your Regional System Administrator:
North Central - Madelyn Alt (malt@cals.wisc.edu)
Northeast - Rubie Mize (rm167@umail.umd.edu)
South - Anna Marie Rasberry (Annam@saaesd.msstate.edu)
West - Harriet Sykes (sykes@lamar.colostate.edu)

To view the actual form, click on the snapshot on your left or the title below the form.

Peer Review Guidelines This is a link to the Peer Review Guidelines: Performance Standards and Operational Guidelines for State Agricultural Experiment Stations.After, reading or printing the guidelines, simply click the back arrow on your browser or click on Peer Review Form to go back to the form.

Project/Activity Number: Please fill in the correct project/activity number.

Rate the technical merit of the project: For each question please choose from the pull down menu and choose one from the following: Excellent, Good, Fair or Unacceptable.

Comments: is limited to 3000 characters. Single line breaks are not preserved, so to separate paragraphs please use a double line break or a html tag such as <p>. There is a list of basic html tags in Attachment 1 that you can use to help format your text.

Your Recommendation: Do you approve, approve with revision or disapprove?

Submit Peer Review Form: Once you click on "Submit Peer Review Form", an e-mail notification is sent to the Regional System Administrator that a Review has been submitted. If the project/activity is a NRSP then all four Regional System Administrators will receive the email. Identity of the Reviewer remains anonymous throughout the system except to the Regional System Administrator. A summary of the Peer Review (generated by NIMSS) is shared with the Advisor and the Region's Multistate Review Committee.

The email notification sent to the Regional System Administrator is as follows:

The peer review for project/activity number: [project/activity number]
has been submitted.
Reviewer name: [reviewer name]
 
Location of review:
[url of review location]