Peer review enhances student knowledge acquisition and the ability to meaningfully apply that knowledge. Formative assessment is the source of much of the positive effect of the peer review process. This evaluation investigated the affective experiences of graduate students as they navigated the writing of their research proposals. The authors…

The goal of this research was to find conveniently administered measures which could provide objective data concerning problem solving skills of applicants to medical schools. The instruments were to be free of medical content so they could be administered to any medical school applicant. However, personal qualities relevant to the demands of…