Related Web Sites
Other Educator Peer Coaching (Mentoring) & Review Web Sites
University of Nebraska, Indiana University, Kansas State University, University of Michigan, Texas A&M University
Peer Review of Teaching
http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/
This site describes an ongoing Peer Review project designed to encourage the development of a community of scholars who are skilled as writers and readers of course portfolios. Their project is focused on making course portfolios useful both to those who produce them and those whose teaching can benefit from reading them. Faculty from five research universities are participating in the program.
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Peer Review of Teaching
http://www.provost.wisc.edu/archives/ccae/MOO/
This site provides information to UW-Madison instructors and administrators who want or need to be involved in peer review of teaching.
University of Texas at Austin
The Center for Teaching Effectiveness
http://www.utexas.edu/academic/cte/PeerObserve.html
A useful guidebook that addresses the following questions: Why peer evaluation and peer observation? What aspects of teaching are faculty peers most qualified to evaluate? What is peer observation? What are two purposes of peer observation? How do you choose or design a peer observation instrument? What are some key issues to remember about formative or summative peer observation? What are some recommendations for institutional use of peer observations? If your dpeartment wants to develop peer observation as part of peer evaluation, what should you do?
American Association for Higher Education
The Peer Collaboration and Review of Teaching
http://www.acls.org/op33.htm#Hutchings
Discusses the role of faculty in the evaluation of teaching, as revealed via lessons learned from the American Association for Higher Education Peer Review project. From The Professional Evaluation of Teaching, Washington, DC: American Council of Learned Societies, Occasional Paper No. 33.