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 ...

This policy supports The University of Texas at San Antonio’s (UTSA) vision of providing access to educational excellence to its students. It recognizes the essential contribution of its faculty ...

Establishing a peer review of teaching process and community culture is not easy and takes time. Following recommendations from literature, research, and colleagues can help. A synthesis of this work ...

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 ...

Sandhya Kumar ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Winthrop House. Amid the hiring freeze and funding uncertainty, Harvard has ...

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 ...

This guide is designed to provide faculty and departments with insights on performing effective peer review of teaching. It was developed in October 2017 by members of a Faculty Learning Community: ...

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 ...

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 ...