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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
Transformation Narratives in Academic Practice
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Kligyte, Giedre – International Journal for Academic Development, 2011
This paper reports an investigation of "transformation narratives" emerging from early career academics' reflective writing. The pieces of writing analysed describe self-initiated teaching development activities embedded in the early career academics' practice. Using a transformative learning framework, the analysis reveals the following…
Descriptors: Transformative Learning, Teaching Methods, Personal Narratives, Reflection
Exploring the Impact of Faculty Reflection on Weekly Student Evaluations of Teaching
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Winchester, Tiffany M.; Winchester, Maxwell – International Journal for Academic Development, 2011
This exploratory study considered Larrivee's assessment of teachers' reflective practice levels by using a formative, weekly, online student evaluation of teaching (SET) tool through a virtual learning environment (VLE) as a means to encourage reflective practice. In-depth interviews were conducted with six faculty members in three departments at…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance, Reflective Teaching, Reflection, Formative Evaluation