Teaching and Learning Enhancement Reference

Improving teaching
 
Peer review

Peer Observation of Teaching. Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) Generic Centre.

This site has an extensive range of excellent recent resources on peer review of teaching. See the resources in the left menu bar as well as the ‘POT Resources’ area of the site.

Escalate is related to the LTSN and contains an extensive practical guide to peer review.

 Peer Review of Teaching. American Association for Higher Education. The AAHE's major project on peer review has generated many useful articles and resources:

Teaching Evaluation Handbook. Cornell University. Chapter 3 and Chapter 4 include sections on peer evaluation

The Professional Evaluation of Teaching. American Council of Learned Societies Occasional Paper No. 33. The Peer Collaboration and Review of Teaching article by Pat Hutchings is an excellent overview and introduction to key issues in peer review of teaching.

Peer Review of Teaching. American Association for Higher Education. The AAHE's major project on peer review has generated many useful articles and resources:

Peer Review of Teaching. North Carolina State University. Considers peer review as part of the scholarship teaching and includes a succinct summary of best practice.

Educator Peer Mentoring and Review. Baylor College of Medicine. Includes brief descriptions of methods and a useful list of annotated references.
 
Teaching portfolios
David Baume. Teaching and Learning Support Network. A slide presentation by a leading UK portfolio practitioner. Notes the key features of a teaching portfolio and the issues associated with each feature.

The Teaching Portfolio: A Model for Documenting Teaching and Its Improvement. A chapter from the Cornell University Teaching Evaluation Handbook.

Designing a Teaching Portfolio. Check the "additional portfolio links" at the end of this page, especially the University of Texas at El Paso site which has detailed suggestions for developing a portfolio.

Teaching portfolios. From here you can access “Developing your teaching portfolio” which includes an example of a teaching portfolio and urls for other examples.
 
Innovation
Project briefings. The Innovations Team, supported by the Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund, UK. A useful site if you are managing an educational development project, with 15 briefing papers on various aspects of project management.

Examples of Good Practice. National Coordination Team, Teaching Quality Enhancement Fund (UK)

A set of exemplars and proformas for project managers.
 
Student evaluation of teaching
Gathering your own Student Feedback. Institute for Learning and Teaching, Sydney University. Ways of getting student feedback apart from formal questionnaires.

Acting on Feedback from Students. Institute for Learning and Teaching, Sydney University. Interpreting, reflecting and acting on student feedback.

Chapter III-Supporting Data: Collection and Presentation. Cornell University Teaching Evaluation Handbook. Includes quantitative and qualitative methods of collecting student (and peer) feedback.

ChapterIV - Criteria for Evaluating Data on Teaching Cornell University Teaching Evaluation Handbook. Sections on evaluating student (and peer) feedback once it is collected.

Interpretation and Use of Student Evaluation Data Centre for Learning, Teaching and Supervision, The Hong Kong Institute of Education.
 
Action research
Action Research Resources. "A substantial action research site" that contains an extraordinary array of resource on action research, including articles and discussion groups.

Action Research. Centre for Higher Education Development, Coventry University. Includes a useful annotated bibliography and checklist.
 
Reflection
Jenny Moon, Learning and Teaching Support Network Generic Centre. An introduction to reflective practice.