When Zero May not be Zero: A Cautionary Note on the use of Inter-rater Reliability in Evaluating Grant Peer Review

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12681" target="_blank" >http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12681</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12681" target="_blank" >10.1111/rssa.12681</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

When Zero May not be Zero: A Cautionary Note on the use of Inter-rater Reliability in Evaluating Grant Peer Review

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Considerable attention has focused on studying reviewer agreement via inter‐rater reliability (IRR) as a way to assess the quality of the peer review process. Inspired by a recent study that reported an IRR of zero in the mock peer review of top‐quality grant proposals, we use real data from a complete range of submissions to the National Institutes of Health and to the American Institute of Biological Sciences to bring awareness to two important issues with using IRR for assessing peer review quality. First, we demonstrate that estimating local IRR from subsets of restricted‐quality proposals will likely result in zero estimates under many scenarios. In both data sets, we find that zero local IRR estimates are more likely when subsets of top‐quality proposals rather than bottom‐quality proposals are considered. However, zero estimates from range‐restricted data should not be interpreted as indicating arbitrariness in peer review. On the contrary, despite different scoring scales used by the two agencies, when complete ranges of proposals are considered, IRR estimates are above 0.6 which indicates good reviewer agreement. Furthermore, we demonstrate that, with a small number of reviewers per proposal, zero estimates of IRR are possible even when the true value is not zero.

Název v anglickém jazyce

When Zero May not be Zero: A Cautionary Note on the use of Inter-rater Reliability in Evaluating Grant Peer Review

Popis výsledku anglicky

Considerable attention has focused on studying reviewer agreement via inter‐rater reliability (IRR) as a way to assess the quality of the peer review process. Inspired by a recent study that reported an IRR of zero in the mock peer review of top‐quality grant proposals, we use real data from a complete range of submissions to the National Institutes of Health and to the American Institute of Biological Sciences to bring awareness to two important issues with using IRR for assessing peer review quality. First, we demonstrate that estimating local IRR from subsets of restricted‐quality proposals will likely result in zero estimates under many scenarios. In both data sets, we find that zero local IRR estimates are more likely when subsets of top‐quality proposals rather than bottom‐quality proposals are considered. However, zero estimates from range‐restricted data should not be interpreted as indicating arbitrariness in peer review. On the contrary, despite different scoring scales used by the two agencies, when complete ranges of proposals are considered, IRR estimates are above 0.6 which indicates good reviewer agreement. Furthermore, we demonstrate that, with a small number of reviewers per proposal, zero estimates of IRR are possible even when the true value is not zero.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

10103 - Statistics and probability

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA21-03658S" target="_blank" >GA21-03658S: Teoretické základy výpočetní psychometrie</a><br>

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A-Statistics in Society

ISSN

0964-1998

e-ISSN

1467-985X

Svazek periodika

184

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

16

Strana od-do

904-919

Kód UT WoS článku

000641375900001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85104530726