Evidence of Effective Teaching: Perceptions of Peer Reviewers

“…Since then, a range of researchers have analyzed this form of professional evaluation. Collectively and independently, they have put forth the aforementioned principles, guidelines, and protocols adding recommendations for how peer evaluation data might be (a) integrated with other indicators of instructor quality to present a more holistic, summative view of teacher effectiveness; (b) shared and used to inform instructors' thought and practice (Bernstein 2008;Cole 2003) especially as instructors are being increasingly required to adapt to, challenge (Peel 2005), and keep up with new trends and instructional technologies (Swinglehurst et al 2008); (c) used to encourage the essential process of self-reflection (Hammersley-Fletcher and Orsmond 2005;Peel 2005;Yon et al 2002); and (d) used to ultimately demonstrate and evidence how instructors use such information to improve practice (Blackmore 2005;Yon et al 2002).…”

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Peer observations among faculty in a college of education: investigating the summative and formative uses of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP)

Amrein‐Beardsley

Popp²

2011

Educ Asse Eval Acc

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Teacher educators piloted the use of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP), a peer observation instrument associated with increases in learning in science and mathematics teacher education courses. Faculty participants received a series of trainings in RTOP use and rated each other's teaching during multiple peer observations. The purpose of this study was to investigate whether the RTOP would prove useful for formative and summative purposes across teacher education courses in general. While participants saw value in the peer observation process and the RTOP instrument, findings suggest that the perceived formative functions of the RTOP outweighed the instrument's summative value.

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“…For discussion of some key issues associated with the use of teaching evaluations, see Langbein (1994), Algozzine et al (2004), and Kelly-Woessner and Woessner (2006). Yon, Burnap, and Kohut (2002) and Kohut, Burnap, and Yon (2007) also describe the use of peer reviews in tenure cases.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…An additional intrauniversity review focused on how a dozen departments at a large southeastern university ranked the importance of teaching, research, and service in tenure cases, finding that research typically received the top ranking and teaching the second. These researchers also evaluated the use of peer reviews in appraisals of teaching (Yon, Burnap, and Kohut 2002;Kohut, Burnap, and Yon 2007). 2 A second type of research uses surveys of faculty, department chairs, and/or administrators across universities to acquire broad information about tenure standards and decision-making procedures.…”

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So You Want Tenure? Factors Affecting Tenure Decisions in Political Science Departments

Marshall

Rothgeb

2011

APSC

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This article investigates the variables that affect the award of tenure in political science departments in the United States. We examined two dependent variables:(1) whether a department has denied tenure in the past five years, and (2) whether a positive departmental tenure recommendation has been reversed by higher college or university authorities during the same period of time. Five clusters of independent variables were evaluated: (1) college/university and departmental characteristics, (2) the procedures employed to evaluate tenure cases, (3) the instruments used to assess teaching, (4) service expectations, and (5) research and publication standards. We found that the most important factors affecting departmental decisions to deny tenure were whether teaching and substantive publications were treated as equally valuable qualifications, the number of articles a candidate published, and the candidate's level of commitment to advising. Interestingly, reversal decisions by higher authorities were not strongly affected by any of the variables in the analysis.

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Evidence of Effective Teaching: Perceptions of Peer Reviewers

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Peer observations among faculty in a college of education: investigating the summative and formative uses of the Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP)

So You Want Tenure? Factors Affecting Tenure Decisions in Political Science Departments

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