Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created during a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates how faculty can integrate well-designed peer review into their daily professional lives, thus improving their teaching by incorporating a means for assessment and collaboration and revealing the student learning that happens with effective teaching within an institutional reward systems.
This book offers a model of peer review intended to help faculty document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through the use of a course portfolio. It features a rich collection of materials--including four dozen exhibits to help assemble a portfolio, reviewers' comments, and reflections drawn from more than 200 professors and portfolio authors in various disciplines and institutions--that faculty can use to develop their course portfolios to be used in their peer review of teaching.