Teaching and Learning Club (TLC) - Discussion & Feedback on Peer Review |
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Date: 24 Mar 2011 (Thursday) Achieving and maintaining excellence in teaching is an important prerequisite for the University’s mission to give students a high quality educational experience. It has however been observed that Teaching Peer Reviews (PRs) conducted at the University have not in general met the objective of distinguishing between average and truly excellent teachers for the purpose of promotion and tenure, teaching awards and re-appointment. Quantitative scores for the vast majority of PRs conducted at the University tended to be 4 and above, and qualitative comments have been found to be generally lacking or not sufficiently insightful. For these reasons the NUS Teaching Academy formed a sub-committee to review the current PR practice with the aim of ensuring greater differentiation in the evaluation of teaching performance. At this discussion, the commitee presented their proposals to revise the way PRs are currently conducted at NUS and gathered some valuable feedback from faculty members.
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