Peer evaluation is a valuable measurement tool that managers use to develop and empower their employees. Not only does it provide useful data and feedback, but also the process itself is great for ...

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 ...

Writing a self-evaluation can be a nerve-wracking experience. After all, there's perhaps nothing more awkward than being asked to sing your own praises and simultaneously highlight your own flaws as ...

Guest blogger Pennye Rogers is a Hope Street Group Fellow for 2013 and has been in education at the secondary level for 24 years. She currently teaches High School Physics, Anatomy/Physiology, ...

As a manager, it’s your job to make your employees’ performance reviews as objective and unbiased as possible. One way to make your reviews fairer is to ask for peer evaluations. Instead of writing ...

Special correspondent for education John Merrow reports how public schools in Toledo, Ohio, are implementing a unique peer-evaluation program for educators that looks to nurture teachers, but make it ...

A white paper released by AllMed Healthcare Management suggests hospitals may be able to improve quality by first improving evaluations of practitioners’ performance. According to the white paper, ...

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 ...

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 ...

As I write this, there are 44 comments on Heather’s post from yesterday about “when student evaluations are just plain wrong.” It should comes as no surprise to any of us, I think, that this topic ...