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- Title
The Effectiveness of Peer Review of Teaching when performed between Early-career Academics.
- Authors
Woodman, Richard J.; Parappilly, Maria B.
- Abstract
The success of peer review of teaching (PRT) in shaping teaching practice during an academic's formative years may depend on the peers' teaching experience and the frequency of evaluation. Two Australian earlycareer University lecturers with no previous experience of peer review performed a single PRT on one another following a one week academic development program, a mandatory exercise for all new academic staff with teaching roles within the University. Their experiences were recorded and used in the development of a teaching philosophy. The same PRT was then repeated between the same 2 individuals for the purpose of mandatory peer evaluation some 5 years later and after gaining considerable teaching experience. This paper describes the perceived impact of the PRT process on their teaching philosophies and the potential limitations imposed by their inexperience in formative PRT and teaching itself. Despite this relative inexperience, both academics believed their initial PRT accelerated changes to their mainly teacher-focused knowledge-transfer approaches. This case study provides qualitative evidence that PRT programs can successfully shape teaching practice without the involvement of more experienced teaching faculty. Academic developers should highlight the importance of building collegiality and the scholarship of teaching and learning for early-career PRT participants.
- Subjects
AUSTRALIA; PEER review of teachers; TEACHING methods; COLLEGE teachers; TEACHING experience; RATING of college teachers; PHILOSOPHY education in universities &; colleges
- Publication
Journal of University Teaching & Learning Practice, 2015, Vol 12, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
1449-9789
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.53761/1.12.1.2