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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Corrected: An earlier version of this story incorrectly identified the location of one of the school districts studied in A User’s Guide to Peer Assistance and Review. The district studied is in San ...

Montreal, May 24, 2012 – Peer evaluation is a touchstone of many business school classes. But does the process of rating the work of one's classmates really shape better businesspeople? A new study ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I started as a teacher in New York City, I was, to put it mildly, a mess. In my first week, I cried in front of my principal when talking about how ill-prepared I felt, and he did something I ...