K12> [NetGold] EDUCATION: TEACHING AND TEACHERS : EDUCATION: ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION: Peer Review of Teaching

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Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 05:38:54 -0500 (EST)
From: David P. Dillard <jwne@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Subject: [NetGold] EDUCATION: TEACHING AND TEACHERS : EDUCATION: ASSESSMENT
     AND EVALUATION: Peer Review of Teaching

EDUCATION: TEACHING AND TEACHERS : EDUCATION: ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION:
Peer Review of Teaching

Peer Review of Teaching
<http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/>

"Structured peer review of teaching is a vehicle for developing teaching
skills and deepening one's understanding of the modern learning
community. This project will create a model community of scholars who
engage in regular substantive peer review to derive benefit from both
reviewing and being reviewed."
<http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/about/index.html>

Project Description
Project goals
Methods and Activities
Examples
Four year plan of accomplishments
Supports of participant time
Financial supports for project
History of Peer Review at UNL
Scholarship Assessed
Partner Institutions
Faculty Portfolio Participants

Project Description

"The Peer Review Project is designed to support faculty in the
development of a community of scholars who write about the intellectual
work involved in their teaching and who share that writing with
interested colleagues. Faculty at five research universities are
participating in the program. A faculty member's experience begins with a
year long fellowship that supports the writing of short essays on
different aspects of teaching (intellectual content, teaching practices,
and student understanding). Faculty then combine the essays into a
reflective document (referred to as a course portfolio) in the form of an
inquiry into the success of a course in helping students learn. These
portfolios are exchanged and discussed in an annual seminar on each
campus for fellowship participants; general issues and readings on
teaching are also part of the seminar. After local conversation and
subsequent refinement, the portfolios will be made available to faculty
on other campuses participating, and private comments will be exchanged.
Some portfolio authors will make further revisions in their portfolios
and in their courses, and the evolving portfolios will be an iterative
record of teachers' inquiry into those experiences that produce the most
student understanding. The project goal is to help faculty become skilled
as writers and readers of course portfolios, making these portfolios
useful both to those who produce them and those whose teaching can
benefit from reading them."

Partner Institutions

The five institutions in this project (University of Nebraska, Indiana
University, Kansas State University, the University of Michigan, and Texas
A&M University) are Ph.D.-granting research universities. Faculty on each
campus have multiple missions including teaching, research, and outreach.
The intellectual work done in research is already well represented in the
publications and funded projects of the faculty, and there is a desire to
represent the intellectual work in teaching as well. All five institutions
are committed to finding a way for faculty to learn from each other's
excellent teaching, just as faculty learn from each other's publicly
accessible research.
<http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/about/partners.html>

Key Contact People:

In general, send an e-mail to peerreview@xxxxxxx and it will get forwarded
to the correct person.

Peer Review Project Director
Dr. Dan Bernstein
The Center for Teaching Excellence
University of Kansas
135 Budig Hall1455
Jayhawk Blvd. #135
Lawrence, KS 66045-7604
Phone: (785) 864-4913
E-mail: djb@xxxxxx

WEBSITE CONTENTS

Home Page
About the Project
Assessment Documents
Portfolio Examples
Peer Consultation Process
Peer Review Newsletter
Participant's Area [Authorization Required]
External Links

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Portfolio Examples

Examples of the Examples [Specific Links]

Name
  Academic Area
  Institution
  URL of Portfolio

Dan Bernstein
  Psychology
  Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
  http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/examples/bernstein/

Rick Bevins
  Psychology
  Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
  http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/examples/bevins/index.html

John Comer Political Science Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/examples/comer/

Ginny Crisco  English Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/examples/crisco.html

Andrew Feig Chemistry Indiana University
http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/examples/feig/

Dana Fritz Art Univ. of Nebraska-Lincoln
http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/examples/fritz/

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Links
<http://www.unl.edu/peerrev/links.html>


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David Dillard
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