Peer Evaluation of Teaching
Last Updated: March 2012
Faculty peer evaluation provides feedback to instructors and helps them improve teaching and learning in their courses. When peer evaluation is used to help instructors improve teaching, it is called a formative review. When it is used it determine salary and tenure, it is called a summative review. The following resources provide guidelines, suggestions, best practices, and sample evaluation instruments for both forms of peer review. Table of Contents
Overviews and Guidelines
- Teaching Evaluation Handbook
Center for Teaching Excellence. Cornell University. Fourth edition, 2008.
The handbook provides a conceptual overview of teaching evaluation, a model for documenting teaching using a portfolio, guidelines for collecting and employing evaluation data from students and peers, an analysis of the evaluation process, and a discussion of the relationship between tenure decisions and the improvement of teaching practice.
- Peer Review of Teaching
Office of the Provost. North Carolina State University.
"Peer Review enhances the dialogue related to teaching effectiveness, recognizes that faculty peers are the best judges of course content, pedagogical methods, and assessment strategies, and elevates teaching as a scholarly activity."
- A Protocol for Peer Review of Teaching [pdf]
By Rebecca Brent and Richard M. Felder. Proceedings of the 2004 American Society for Engineering Education Annual Conference & Exposition. American Society for Engineering Education.
- Developing an Effective Faculty Evaluation System [pdf]
By William E. Cashin. iDea Paper. No. 33. Center for Faculty Evaluation & Development. Kansas State University. January 1996.
- Teaching Assessment and Evaluation Guide [pdf]
Senate Committee on Teaching and Learning (SCOTL),York University
- Peer Review of Teaching in Australian Higher Education: A handbook to support institutions in developing and embedding effective policies and practices
Centre for the Study of Higher Education. Melbourne Graduate School of Education. The University of Melbourne. 2008.
- Peer Observation Guidelines and Recommendations
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Minnesota.
Based on Peter Seldin's "Changing Practices in Evaluating Teaching" & Ohio State University's "Handbook for Instructors."
- Preparing for Peer Evaluation
Center for Teaching and Learning, University of Texas at Austin
- Peer Teaching Evaluation Procedure [pdf]
Purdue University. 2000.
- The Peer Review of Teaching
The Teaching Academy. University of Wisconsin.
The Teaching Academy has provided answers to a series of frequently asked questions, like "How can I help raise the profile of teaching in my department?" and "How do I design a peer review program?"
- Framework for Peer Evaluation of Teaching at the University of Saskatchewan: Best Practices [pdf]
University of Saskatchewan. 2003.
- Peer Review of Teaching for Promotion Purposes
Australian Learning and Teaching Council. The University of Adelaide.
A project to develop and implement a pilot program of Peer Review of Teaching at four Australian Universities.
- Why Introducing or Sustaining Peer Review of Teaching Is so Hard, and What You Can Do About It
By Nancy Van Note Chism. Tomorrow's Professor (SM) Mailing List. The Stanford University Center for Teaching and Learning. 2007.
Sample Forms and Instruments
Self Evaluation
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