This essay is excerpted from a new Chronicle special report, “Building a Faculty that Flourishes,” available in the Chronicle Store. Mention peer review of teaching in a faculty meeting, and you’re ...

Peer observation in higher education represents a systematic approach where educators engage in reciprocal classroom evaluations, fostering a reflective and collegial environment. This process, often ...

Peer review is a process by which students are asked to look at other students' work and provide feedback. While most commonly used for writing assignments, peer review can be used for any project or ...

In higher education, peer review stands as the prime means for ensuring that scholarship is of the highest quality, and from it flows consequential assessments that shape careers, disciplines, and ...

Discipline-based Education Research (DBER) and Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) improve teaching and learning through empirical research and inquiry. To cultivate the growth and development ...

Due to increasing enrollment numbers and lack of space to accommodate the increasing students, a redesign of the University of Missouri Small Animal Gross Anatomy Lab was necessary. With the redesign, ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Part Two in this series included commentaries by Rita Platt, Paul Solarz, Laurie Buffington, Dr. Laura ...

To incorporate near-peer teaching into a curriculum, use a planning and implementation framework to design your curriculum. Take the following questions into consideration: Now that you have planned ...

“...to take advantage of the energy for change that's ‘out there’ today will require not just different methods in the classroom but the development of a campus ...

Every quarter, Northwestern CS honors and recognizes students who demonstrate excellence in computer science mentoring and teaching with the Peter and Adrienne Barris Outstanding Teaching Assistant ...