Student evaluations of my spring English composition course arrived the other day, and I read them with the usual stew of satisfaction, frustration, and puzzlement. The numbers looked good, and I ...

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 ...

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 ...

Teaching is a complex activity, and the way that we evaluate teaching should ideally take into account this complexity. Although student evaluations of teaching (SETs) are often the primary way we ...

The Teaching Quality Framework Initiative has a suite of materials and associated processes for transforming teaching evaluation at the departmental level. These materials include scholarly and ...

Are principals the best people to do teacher evaluations? Not necessarily, a study published in this month’s Educational Policy journal suggests. The study found that peer-led evaluations left ...

Establishing a peer review of teaching process and community culture is not easy and takes time. Following recommendations from literature, research, and colleagues can help. A synthesis of this work ...

Includes updates and/or revisions. A newly ratified teachers’ contract in Newark creates several firsts for New Jersey. Some teachers will have the opportunity to earn up to $12,500 extra for getting ...

To incorporate near-peer teaching into a curriculum, use a planning and implementation framework to design your curriculum. Take the following questions into consideration: Now that you have planned ...

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: ...

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 ...

The preliminary meeting is the first physical/personal contact between the reviewer and the instructor and both parties must be prepared if this meeting is to be successful. The first topics of the ...