TABLE 6.
Peer evaluation resources
| The Department Chair’s Role in Developing New Faculty into Teachers and Scholars (Bensimon et al., 2000) provides suggestions for assigning teaching mentors to new faculty and methods to provide formative feedback and guidance, including providing new faculty with information that assists them in planning and adapting courses after presentation of feedback. |
| “Survey of 12 Strategies to Measure Teaching Effectiveness” (Berk, 2005) describes and then critically reviews the dozen methods currently available for evaluating teaching, including peer review and student evaluations, but also teaching awards, portfolios, and student performance data. |
| Assessing and Improving Your Teaching (Blumberg, 2014) outlines a self-reflective approach that focuses on collecting a variety of sources to document teaching effectiveness and contains multiple rubrics to assess how this documented process changes over time. |
| Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook, Second Edition (Chism, 2007) provides a very practical guide that provides clear descriptions of systems and materials for observing faculty in the classroom and providing feedback as colleagues. |
| “Peer Observation and Assessment of Teaching” (originally developed and edited in 2006 by Bill Roberson, PhD, for the University of Texas at El Paso; revised and adapted by Franchini, 2008) is a comprehensive manual that covers everything from rationale for peer observation to issues with selecting good peer observers. It also provides documents and indices to assist in selecting a peer review process and then delivering feedback to faculty. |
| “Collaborative Peer-Supported Review of Teaching” (Gosling, 2014) reviews the different models of peer review that faculty could adopt to inform their teaching, including evaluative, developmental, and collaborative versions. |
| University websites also contain detailed descriptions of appropriate ground rules for conducting peer review of class teaching that involve much more than simple drop-in observations and creation of reports: |
| University of Arizona (Novodvorsky, 2016) |
| Kansas State University (Northway, 2015) |
| Vanderbilt University (Bandy, 2015) |
| University of Nebraska–Lincoln (2016) |