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MASSIVE - Modelling Advice and Support Services to Integrate the Virtual Component in Higher Education
Project
MASSIVE, project coordinated by Universidad de Granada
January 2005 - March 2007
Main outcome
MASSIVE Peer Review Handbook
80 pages.
2007
Authors
Joseph D. Cullen, with the contributions of M. Begoña Arenas, Jeff Haywood & Denise Haywood
Abstract
This document sets out proposals and procedures for carrying out the MASSIVE Peer Reviews and provides instruments and Guidelines for data gathering and analysis. It draws together and further develops strands of work that have previously been carried out within the context of the MASSIVE Peer Review process, notably the ‘Methodology Report’, the ‘Peer Review Schema’ and the ‘Peer Review Visit Questions’ developed by partners. A key purpose of this document is to integrate this accompanying work and to address some of the ‘gaps’ hitherto not covered. Against this background, one of the main objectives of developing this ‘handbook’ is to ensure adequate ‘triangulation’ of different stakeholder perspectives within each of the participating review sites, and to prevent a single ‘voice’ dominating the results of the Review. In order to achieve this, the Handbook provides for the utilisation of three different, though complementary data gathering methods: archive and documentation analysis; interviews and observation. It also proposes a three-stage process for the Peer Review, comprised of an initial ‘set-up’ phase; a subsequent phase of data gathering focused on the site visit, and a final ‘analysis and synthesis’ stage involving the production of recommendations arrived at through collaborative reflection between the MASSIVE team and the hosting institution.
Peer review handbook
Peer Review Handbook of MASSIVE project (PDF), by Joseph D. Cullen with the contributions of M. Begoña Arenas, Jeff & Denise Haywood
Source
Outputs of the MASSIVE project are available at