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Teaching for Learning and Learning for Teaching

Peer Review of Teaching in Higher Education

  • The originality in this book is the incorporation of cross-disciplinary academic voices
  • It innovatively monitors and evaluates the pedagogical change in the teaching practices
  • It captures the significant change points in the understandings and operations through the Most Significant Change technique

Part of the book series: Professional Learning (PROFL)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
  2. Teaching for Learning and Learning for Teaching

    • Christopher Klopper, Steve Drew
    Pages 1-11
  3. Defining and Developing a Framework for the Peer Observation of Teaching

    • Steve Drew, Christopher Klopper, Duncan Nulty
    Pages 13-34
  4. Pro-Teaching

    • Christopher Klopper, Steve Drew, Kirsty Mallitt
    Pages 35-52
  5. Enhancing Learning by Enhancing Teaching

    • Christopher Klopper, Steve Drew, Bianca Power
    Pages 53-62
  6. Peer Assisted Reflection for Studio Music Teachers

    • Gemma Carey, Catherine Grant
    Pages 63-78
  7. Peer Observation in the Online Learning Environment

    • Tarryn Kille, Paul Bates, Patrick S. Murray
    Pages 79-97
  8. Everyone’s a Critic: The Power of Peer Review

    • Irene Bartlett, David Spicer
    Pages 155-167
  9. Story-Telling in Lectures

    • Paul D. Williams
    Pages 189-207
  10. The Reluctance of Scientists to Engage in Peer Review of Teaching

    • Sarah L. Cresswell, Sarah-Jane Gregory, Dianne J. Watters
    Pages 227-245
  11. Back Matter

    Pages 261-265

About this book

Teaching for Learning and Learning for Teaching focuses on the emerging global governmental and institutional agenda about higher education teaching quality and the role that peer review can play in supporting improvements in teaching and student outcomes. This agenda is a pervasive element of the further development of higher education internationally through activities of governments, global agencies, institutions of higher education, discrete disciplines, and individual teachers. Many universities have adopted student evaluations as a mechanism to appraise the quality of teaching. These evaluations can be understood as providing a “customer-centric” portrait of quality; and, when used as the sole arbiter of teaching performance they do not instil confidence in the system of evaluation by academic teaching staff. Providing peer perspectives as counterpoint, whether in a developmental or summative form, goes some way to alleviating this imbalance and is the impetus for the resurgence of interest in peer review and observation of teaching. This book seeks to recognise cases of peer review of teaching in Higher Education to affirm best practices and identify areas that require improvement in establishing local, national and international benchmarks of teaching quality.


Editors and Affiliations

  • Griffith University, Australia

    Christopher Klopper, Steve Drew

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Teaching for Learning and Learning for Teaching

  • Book Subtitle: Peer Review of Teaching in Higher Education

  • Editors: Christopher Klopper, Steve Drew

  • Series Title: Professional Learning

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-289-9

  • Publisher: SensePublishers Rotterdam

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Education (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature B.V. 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-6300-289-9Published: 30 October 2015

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVI, 266

  • Topics: Education, general

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