Employee performance evaluations give the employer a glimpse at the productivity and quality of work within the company. The evaluations help you determine if employees are reaching goals and meeting ...

In many active learning modalities, collaboration is a central aspect. Thus, when students are working in teams, it is important that they formally learn to evaluate one another and that their ...

Nurses have a lot of responsibility, including the assessment and care of patients. There are times when decisions are made without a doctor's supervision. Because people's lives are on the line, it ...

What is peer assessment and why use it? Peer assessment is a mode of co-evaluation that involves analysis of a student’s work by other students. Using a rubric to guide their assessment of the ...

Over the past few decades, colleges and universities have become increasingly corporatized, to the point that students are seen as consumers who are recruited through promises of a safe and wonderful ...

The teaching evaluation system consists of three components: student evaluation, peer or colleague evaluation, and self-evaluation. The evaluation of teaching provides information that instructional ...

Self-evaluation is a necessary component of being successful — both in the corporate, professional sense and in terms of personal growth. All employees have to fill out a performance evaluation at ...

Student evaluations of teaching (SET) are a popular measure of teaching effectiveness, which center students’ perspectives. However, research shows that SET scores have limitations, including ...

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 ...