Franchesca read about Mrazek et al.'s study in which students scored higher on the GRE after completing a 2-week mindfulness tra
ining course. Franchesca is interested in the idea that practicing mindfulness improves the ability to control one's mind from wondering. She decides to conduct a similar study in which she has students practice either mindfulness or read and then take a test of attention. Franchesca predicts that, in line with the original study, students who had practiced mindfulness would perform better on the attention test. She runs the study and finds that the results match her prediction. Franchesca writes up her experiment and submits it to a journal to be evaluated by fellow scientists for publication. What is this process called?
The peer-review process, also known as refereeing deals with the subjection of the scholarly work of an author, ideas or research to evaluation and scrutiny by some group of experts in the same field, before the paper is then submitted for publication in a journal, as a book, or conference proceedings. This is the same example as stated in the scenario portrayed in the question, and it is a necessary step to get your work published.
