AISHE Readings : 2006 Number 1
A Practical Manual For Evaluating Teaching
In Higher Education

Appendix G
Sample Peer Reviewer Report Form (Teaching)

Introduction

University procedures relating to promotion define teaching as the creation and sustaining of an effective environment for learning. It may include any or all of the following:

• the introduction of the concepts, methods, and subject matter of the discipline or field of study in a manner which stimulates those taught and enables them to engage with the knowledge in a critical and independent manner appropriate to the level at which they have been taught;
• curriculum design, course management, instruction, assessment, and the creation of a social and academic environment that promotes learning;
• initiation into research by supervision of dissertations or other research projects at the appropriate level.

Please base this report on your knowledge of the candidate’s teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Other Peer Reviewers will have been contacted about other aspects of the candidate’s work. The candidate has supplied the University with the evidence you need to complete the Report (attached).

Having due regard to the criteria for promotion to the position applied for, please rate the candidate under the headings listed below.

Please leave any section blank where you are unable to respond.