The POD Network Reviewer Training

All POD Reviewers are expected to participate in reviewer training. Training helps to ensure that proposals are consistently scored and that feedback to proposal authors is constructive. Training may be completed at your own pace as an individual, with a group of colleagues, or in pairs with a member of the POD community. Proposals will not be assigned to reviewers who have not completed the training.

First-Time POD Proposal Reviewers

Please select this option if you are a first-time reviewer or have never completed this training.

First-time reviewer training

Veteran POD Proposal Reviewers

Please select this option if you have reviewed for POD before and have taken this training in previous years.

Veteran reviewer training

First-time reviewer training

Please complete these three steps:

  1. Review the video playlist below. The total length of the six audio-narrated modules is 33-minutes. A transcript of these modules is also available.
  2. Review the supplemental worksheet, quiz, and refresher guide.
  3. Provide your details and certify that you have completed the required modules.

A survey will be sent to you at the conclusion of the review process to collect your feedback on your experience as a reviewer.

The conference committee highly recommends that you review the supplemental worksheet . It contains two full proposals with sample reviews and space to practice writing constructive feedback. The worksheet answers may be used to guide your feedback; the quiz is intended to be informative, light and playful.

You may choose to print the 2-page refresher guide to have at your disposal when completing reviews as it includes helpful tips and suggestions. Please click here to access the resource.

Kindly use the same email as you entered on the reviewer call for participation.

Veteran reviewer training

Please complete these three steps:

  1. Review the video below, which covers module three of the six modules of the full training. The length of the audio-narrated module is 10-minutes. A transcript of all six modules is also avaliable.
  2. Review the refresher guide and self-assess additional modules and supplemental worksheets that support your confidence in writing reviews.
  3. Provide your details and certify that you have completed the required module.

A survey will be sent to you at the conclusion of the review process to collect your feedback on your experience as a reviewer.

You requested it and we created it - you may choose to print the 2-page refresher guide with helpful tips and suggestions to have at your disposal when completing reviews.

Please use your agency to self-assess additional modules and supplemental worksheets that would support your confidence in writing thoughtful and constructive reviews.

List of modules

  1. Introduction & Learning Objectives 1.44 minutes
    The module overviews key learning objectives for training.
  2. POD's Mission & Values 1.13 minutes
    The module highlights PODs mission and describes the organization’s values of collaboration, equity, and evidence.
  3. Review Criteria/Inclusive Strategies/Author’s Experience 10.16 minutes
    The module details the review criteria, how to use the rating scale, and when to use accept, accept with reservations, and reject. It also describes baseline expectations for equity and inclusion for all POD sessions, and assessing whether the proposed session meets these expectations, needs revision, or requires substantive revision. The module reminds reviewers that sensitivity to the author’s experience is integral to POD community-building.
  4. Biases/Microaggressions/Rater Errors 4.52 minutes
    The module provides baseline definitions of biases, microaggressions, and common rater errors grounded in scholarly research.
  5. Practice Identifying Biases 6.26 minutes
    The module prompts reviewers to practice identifying biases, racial microaggressions, and dismissive and/or negative comments through a guided reflection activity.
  6. Practice Constructive Feedback 9.16 minutes
    The module features helpful tips on constructive feedback grounded in research, and a reflection activity to practice re-writing negative and/or dismissive comments constructively.

Supplemental worksheet & Quiz

The conference committee highly recommends that you review the supplemental worksheet . It contains two full proposals with sample reviews and space to practice writing constructive feedback. The worksheet answers may be used to guide your feedback; the quiz is intended to be informative, light and playful.

Kindly use the same email as you entered on the reviewer call for participation.
If your previous training used another email address, kindly enter it here.

What's Next

Reviewers will be assigned to proposals that are aligned with their self-selected areas of expertise. Each proposal will be reviewed by three individuals in an anonymous review process. Session coordinators will receive the reviewer feedback and use a combination of numeric scores, final recommendations, and reviewer comments to rank proposals, passing their recommendations for acceptance along to the Program Chairs.

Questions or Concerns

Please contact the Conference team via email should you have any questions, concerns, or comments related to the training materials or proposal reviews.

External links

Acknowledgements

The supplemental worksheet and the experiential training modules were developed and audio-narrated by Pamela Roy, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Consultant to the POD Conference Committee in consultation with the 2021, 2022, and 2023 POD Conference Teams & the 2021, and 2023 AdHoc Committee for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. These members include: Janet Cape, Jess Clawson, Lynn Eaton, Kristin English, Teresa Focarile, Christopher Grabau, Claudia Cornejo Happel, Carol Hernandez, Chad Hershock, Hoag Holmgren, Heeyoung Kim, Antonia Levy, Tammy McCoy, Mandy McGrew, José Muñiz, Jerod Quinn, Cheryl Richardson, Artineh Samkian, Carol Subiño Sullivan, German Vargas Ramos, & Tonya Whitehead (in alphabetical order).