Overview
- Presents a comprehensive discussion of the value of peer review in tertiary pedagogy
- Offers an international perspective on peer review in learning and teaching through case studies from four continents
- Provides a coherent account of the systematic embedding of peer review of learning and teaching in higher education
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education (PROD, volume 9)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Theory
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Practice
Keywords
- Authority and power relationships
- Collaborative review
- Collegiality in peer review
- Communication in peer review
- David Gosling
- Departmental peer observation
- Developmental model of peer observation and review
- Embedding peer review of learning and teaching
- External peer observation and review
- Internal peer observation and review
- Interpersonal relations in peer review
- Intrapersonal leadership development
- Leadership in peer review
- Maureen Bell
- Models of peer review in higher education
- Online peer observation
- Peer enhancement
- Peer evaluation in teaching
- Peer observation of teaching
- Peer review guides and forms
About this book
Incorporating both theoretical and practical perspectives, this volume of papers explores varied aspects of peer review of teaching in higher education. The section on theory features contributions from academics based in Europe, North America and Australia. It provides a number of models demonstrating ways in which collegial peer commentary can enhance the quality of learning and teaching. The chapters examine in detail the importance of communication and leadership, and deploy evidence from one-on-one interviews that evince the value of considering collegiality, emotions, attitudes, and spaces in peer review. The analysis shows how these factors are central to the ways in which lecturers and teachers communicate with each other to create constructive opportunities for learning.
The chapters on practical considerations detail the peer review process and include case studies from institutions in Africa, Europe, North America and Australia, which focus on different areas of the topic, including peer review as a quality assurance mechanism, peer review in distance education, peer review in foundation courses, and peer review embedded within a department and across a university. The book ends with an international perspective on the role of peer review in ensuring a holistic approach to quality enhancement in learning and teaching.
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Peer Review of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Book Subtitle: International Perspectives
Editors: Judyth Sachs, Mitch Parsell
Series Title: Professional Learning and Development in Schools and Higher Education
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7639-5
Publisher: Springer Dordrecht
eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-94-007-7638-8Published: 05 November 2013
Softcover ISBN: 978-94-024-0654-2Published: 18 September 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-7639-5Published: 22 October 2013
Series ISSN: 1879-8624
Series E-ISSN: 2543-0556
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 219
Number of Illustrations: 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Learning & Instruction, Higher Education, Administration, Organization and Leadership