Please take 10 minutes to respond to any of the question prompts stated here. You don’t need to answer all of the questions. Respond to the ones that resonate the most with you. Be sure to look at your cohort’s responses!
Prompts:
How will your team attempt to manage the effects of bias in the review process?
How will your team work to invite a more diverse range of reviews and value a broad range of perspectives?
Are there non-traditional subject matter experts you’d like to work with? (students, community members, etc.)
Are there project specific questions you would like to ask during the review process?
For Healthcare Informatics–specific questions about the related activities in each chapter. Do they work to get across the desired learning outcomes? Are they engaging?
For both Maryland projects, feedback from students will be key.
Feedback from those working in the field, not just academics could include practicing nurses for Healthcare Informatics and data scientists for Machine Learning for Data Analytics.
We are already looking at not only a student group as a reviewer but having a reviewer from an art perspective. She currently works at an Indigenous Art Institute and we are hoping that she can review the different graphics, videos, etc that we have contributed to the work. We are also looking at a second reviewer whose specialty is graphic design and book formatting to look at the visual setup of our book and make sure that it does not have a distracting element. We want to make sure we are communicating the correct information without distraction.
I think we may be able to use the Indigenous Awareness Association (or at least some of its members) as well as (maybe) our current and former students to give us an idea of the student perspective.
Lastly, I would like to have someone in the DEI field. I want to make sure that while protecting the sacred expression of one group we do not marginalize another. My MIL is an ASL interpreter so I keep thinking about the accessibility of the document as well. Not just for those who are deaf or hearing impaired but for many different perspectives.
Invite reviewers from different institutions, including Unis and CC. Experts and non-experts (students will be invited)
Same as 1
Maybe not. Or Ariana will be the non SME reviewer who can describe if the material successfully will draw non-SMEs in and encourage them to know more about the field
What do you think the new book contributes to the field of Microbial Biotechnology that other published books do not? Are there topics that we missed?
Prompt#2:
We can share the content with students to provide feedback (current or former students). This can be extended to colleagues with a background on the subject.
Reviewing for bias-free language could be structured into the peer-review process (and before that, could be part of the guidance provided to contributing authors). The review guide template includes a link to the APA Bias-Free Language Guidelines, which can be used in the review process.
How will your team attempt to manage the effects of bias in the review process?
[we will recruit a panel of reviewers from different backgrounds, both disciplinary, age, degrees, ethnicities, etc.]
How will your team work to invite a more diverse range of reviews and value a broad range of perspectives?
[we collaborate with REACH program to recruit 1-2 student reviewers; we have talked to faculty in different colleges to be reviewers; we also will have peer review process; we will send out to librarians for review; we will hear feedback and do multiple volumes/editions in the future]
Are there non-traditional subject matter experts you’d like to work with? (students, community members, etc.)
Yes, students and community partners
Are there project specific questions you would like to ask during the review process?
A. what you find the strengths and weaknesses of this project?
B. What are some of the subjects that you are particularly interested in/find helpful
C. What would you like to try out in your class/teaching/studies
D. What would you think we could improve on?