is a biology text book considered peer reviewed?
2006-10-31 16:33:40 · 5 answers · asked by crazymonkey 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Teaching
Peer review (known as refereeing in some academic fields) is a process of subjecting an author's scholarly work or ideas to the scrutiny of others who are experts in the field.
An excerpt from Wikipedia:
...textbooks are not subjected to review by professional academics, nor can authorship of a high school textbook be used to advance an academic toward tenure at a university. The content of history textbooks thus lies entirely outside the academic forum of fact and social science and is instead determined by the political forces of state adoption boards and ideological pressure groups.
The peer review article below provides a good discussion of what *does* constitute peer review.
The article on textbooks is not as well written, but provides some interesting points.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peer_review
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textbook
2006-10-31 16:57:32 · answer #1 · answered by TravelO 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Peer review refers to the *author's* peers, not yours. Journal articles are reviewed by the author's peers.
2006-11-01 01:05:48 · answer #2 · answered by NachoBidness 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
A peer review is a review by people of your same status , age and experience.
2006-11-01 00:39:45 · answer #3 · answered by fancyname 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
You would ***hope*** so but sadly that isn't always the case.
The inside cover with all the publishing information may contain this information.
2006-11-01 01:02:25 · answer #4 · answered by refresherdownunder 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No
2006-11-01 00:39:15 · answer #5 · answered by ladybird 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋