New Scoring Procedure to be Used by CSR Study Sections
In order to provide reviewers increased capability to discriminate among the applications being evaluated CSR is asking them to score the top half of applications between 1.0 and 3.0. The top quarter of applications should be scored between 1.0 and 2.0. This change will take place beginning with the June 1998 study section meetings. Applications considered by the reviewers to be in the lower half of those being reviewed should be scored greater than 3.0 or streamlined. By spreading scores for the most meritorious applications, those being considered for funding, over a wider range, reviewers will be able to provide program staff a clearer indication of the scientific merit of a specific application.
Coincident with this change in scoring, percentile ranks of applications being reviewed at study section meetings this June will be computed using only the scores of applications reviewed at the June 1998 meeting. This will allow reviewers to alter their scoring behavior without adversely affecting the percentile ranks of applications being reviewed.
Last update: June 15, 1998
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