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Using observation of teaching to improve quality: finding your way through the muddle of competing conceptions, confusion of practice and mutually exclusive intentions.
- Source :
- Teaching in Higher Education; Aug2007, Vol. 12 Issue 4, p499-511, 13p, 1 Diagram
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This paper begins by reviewing some of the different models of third-party observation of university teaching that can be found in the literature. Having analysed these, it argues that - if 'peer' is taken to indicate equality of status - only one is genuinely a model of peer-observation. It proposes an alternative categorisation of third-party observations of teaching dependant on who controls the information generated by the process. A preferred six-dimensional model based on control by the person being observed of the data-flow, and other procedural aspects, is presented and explored. Evaluative comments, by university teachers who have undertaken the process, are presented to illustrate the benefits of adopting this model. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13562517
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Teaching in Higher Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 25729787
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13562510701415607