Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...

Peer observation holds significant importance in improving the teaching effectiveness of instructors, as it provides a platform for instructors to engage in reflective practice, allowing them to ...

The Faculty Teaching Fellows are an ACM-funded cohort of faculty at St. Olaf, Carleton, and Luther Colleges, practiced in peer observation of teaching, who can provide compassionate, low-stakes, ...

This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

While on safari with NEAF Global Fellows in South Africa, our guide suddenly stopped the truck and jumped out. There on the edge of the dirt road, unnoticed by any of us, he identified an impression ...

This guide is designed to provide faculty and departments with insights on performing effective peer review of teaching. It was developed in October 2017 by members of a Faculty Learning Community: ...

Peer observation in higher education represents a systematic approach where educators engage in reciprocal classroom evaluations, fostering a reflective and collegial environment. This process, often ...

Over the past few decades, colleges and universities have become increasingly corporatized, to the point that students are seen as consumers who are recruited through promises of a safe and wonderful ...

“...to take advantage of the energy for change that's ‘out there’ today will require not just different methods in the classroom but the development of a campus ...

On the scale of most anxiety-producing moments in teaching, few things top the dreaded peer observation. True, there are plenty of other sources of teaching angst, but none of them quite match the ...

In higher education, peer review stands as the prime means for ensuring that scholarship is of the highest quality, and from it flows consequential assessments that shape careers, disciplines, and ...

The Observation Activity is central to the review process and much of the data generated in the process are gathered from this activity. There are several categories of observation, each with several ...