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Peer Review of Teaching: Using the Nominal Group Technique to Improve a Program in a University Setting with No Previous Experience
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Rocío Barrios-Rodríguez; Inmaculada Salcedo-Bellido; José Juan Jiménez-Moleón; Macarena Lozano-Lorca; Noelia Galiano-Castillo; Enrique José Cobos; José Dámaso Vílchez Rienda; Rocío Olmedo-Requena; Carmen Amezcua-Prieto; Sandra Martín-Peláez; Carmen María González Domenech; Juan Pedro Arrebola Moreno; Raúl A. Rica; María Eugenia García-Rubiño; Pilar Requena – International Journal for Academic Development, 2023
In a peer-review of teaching (PRT) program, we aimed to i) use pre- and post-observation questionnaires to enhance self-reflection, and ii) perform a nominal group technique (NGT) to agree on improvements. The questionnaires showed that PRT helped discovering new weaknesses but not new strengths, and that preconceived negative feelings vanished…
Descriptors: Peer Evaluation, Teacher Evaluation, College Faculty, Reflection
Academic Development, SoTL and Educational Research
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Geertsema, Johan – International Journal for Academic Development, 2016
This essay considers the relation between academic development, the scholarship of teaching and learning, and educational research. It does so with reference to questions of academic identity and disciplinary expertise, arguing that as developers we need to consider carefully the ways in which we frame how we approach attempts to foster reflective…
Descriptors: Educational Development, Educational Research, Professional Identity, Expertise
Transnational Teaching Experiences: An Under-Explored Territory for Transformative Professional Development
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Smith, Karen – International Journal for Academic Development, 2009
In an increasingly global higher education environment, many universities are taking their educational services overseas. One model of overseas provision is through transnational (offshore) education. Transnational teaching challenges the prevailing understanding of an academic role at every level. Transnational teachers are expected to work in…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Higher Education, Professional Development, Teaching Experience
Supervisors' Conceptions of Research and the Implications for Supervisor Development
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Bills, Dianne – International Journal for Academic Development, 2004
Teaching reform in higher education has frequently been informed by investigations into conceptions of learning held by students and by teachers. Such work has been extended into research education, with the study of experienced researchers' conceptions of research providing a basis for enquiry into the way research is experienced by the various…
Descriptors: Investigations, Research Methodology, Focus Groups, Educational Change