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Publication Date: 2025
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Wearing the Consultant's Hat: Training Faculty to Perform Quality Peer Reviews
To Improve the Academy, v44 n1 Article 1 p1-24 2025
The claim has been made for decades that college teaching, like research, should be peer reviewed if we are to see it as a serious scholarly activity; yet peer review as a method of evaluating teaching is not widespread. Interest in peer review is increasing, however, as institutions have sought ways of evaluating teaching informed by professional practice instead of solely data gathered from student evaluations of teaching, which are based on consumer satisfaction models and have proved biased against women and people of color. Yet if faculty are to engage in peer review of teaching, whether for formative or summative purposes, they should be trained in best practices to ensure that the reviews are of high quality and, most important, that they focus on improving the observed instructor's teaching. In this article we describe our program to train faculty to be peer reviewers, describe faculty reactions to our training, and outline the lessons we as consultants have learned in facilitating this program.
Descriptors: College Faculty, Peer Evaluation, Faculty Development, Training, Teacher Attitudes, Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Teacher Effectiveness, Check Lists, Scoring Rubrics
Michigan Publishing. 839 Greene Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48104. Tel: 734-764-3417; e-mail: mpublishing@umich.edu; Web site: https://www.toimprovetheacademy.org/
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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