Peer Faculty in the same area A nuanced and Time consuming to complete. evaluation (subject matter experts) sit qualitative assessment of Challenging and expensive to in and observe an teaching made by a train peers to be effective in this instructor teach a lesson. subject matter expert. role. There is likely to be a thin pool of people willing/able to Used developmentally for serve in this capacity. new instructors to get A one-time evaluation could be feedback and tips for misleading. improvement. Content experts are not necessarily pedagogy experts. Trained peers observe as part of the formal teaching evaluation. Professional An optional service Trained pedagogy Expensive and time consuming. observation by provided by the university experts engaged in the trained experts for proactive faculty. teaching evaluation. from the Could be made Center for mandatory. Teaching Excellence Videotaping An optional service Provides a record of Not all rooms are video enabled. provided by the university teaching that could be Expensive. for proactive faculty. reviewed by multiple It would be time consuming to do people after the fact. editing/excerpting. Should this be Could be done by the faculty member as excerpted/edited across part of preparing a portfolio, or multiple days to show a should it be done by an expert? broader sample.
Peer evaluation Faculty in the same area (subject matter experts) sit in and observe an instructor teach a lesson. Used developmentally for new instructors to get feedback and tips for improvement. Trained peers observe as part of the formal teaching evaluation. A nuanced and qualitative assessment of teaching made by a subject matter expert. Time consuming to complete. Challenging and expensive to train peers to be effective in this role. There is likely to be a thin pool of people willing/able to serve in this capacity. A one-time evaluation could be misleading. Content experts are not necessarily pedagogy experts. Professional observation by trained experts from the Center for Teaching Excellence An optional service provided by the university for proactive faculty. Trained pedagogy experts engaged in the teaching evaluation. Could be made mandatory. Expensive and time consuming. Videotaping An optional service provided by the university for proactive faculty. Provides a record of teaching that could be reviewed by multiple people after the fact. Could be excerpted/edited across multiple days to show a broader sample. Not all rooms are video enabled. Expensive. It would be time consuming to do editing/excerpting. Should this be done by the faculty member as part of preparing a portfolio, or should it be done by an expert?
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