This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

What is peer review of teaching (PRT)? Peer review is recognized in academia as a measure for ensuring quality work that meets standards and expectations among experts. Similarly, peer review of ...

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 ...

Peer observation in higher education represents a systematic approach where educators engage in reciprocal classroom evaluations, fostering a reflective and collegial environment. This process, often ...

This toolkit was designed by the Teaching and Learning Center, the Office of Assessment and Accreditation, and the Office of Faculty Advancement at Drexel University to support faculty and academic ...

“...to take advantage of the energy for change that's ‘out there’ today will require not just different methods in the classroom but the development of a campus ...

Discipline-based Education Research (DBER) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) improve teaching and learning through empirical research and inquiry. To cultivate the growth and development ...

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 ...

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 Nature Index tracks primary research articles from 145 natural-science and health-science journals, chosen based on reputation by an independent group of researchers. The Nature Index provides ...