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Appropriate for use in critique at any level-from the beginner to the advanced student. Its uniqueness and universal application in visual arts curriculum make The Critique Handbook an excellent introduction for beginners and a valuable resource for more experienced students. This text was written to address an existing gap in the literature pertaining to the study of art. Although the critique is central to all art programs, there have been no textbooks or comprehensive guides that deal with this important instructional tool. The Critique Handbook fills the need for such a book. Quotes: "The Critique Handbook is a well organized and useful text. Most immediately useful -- and inventive -- are the exercises toward the back of the book." Stu Thompson, Ph.D. Professor of Art Seton Hill University.
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The new edition of this bestselling book builds on the author’s extensive administrative and consulting experience as well as scholarship on faculty rewards. It includes additional discussion of important foundational issues as well as practical forms and ideas gleaned from disciplinary groups and campuses throughout the nation. Like the first edition of Peer Review of Teaching, this new edition is offered in the hope that providing examples and suggestions will not reduce the important work of peer review to mere forms or rigid procedures, but will empower faculty to articulate criteria and standards, perform the reviews systematically and thoughtfully, and realize that engaging in peer review is an approachable and worthwhile professional task. Updated to reflect the emphasis on student learning as the ultimate goal of college teaching, it incorporates new ideas and references from the literature. The most notable change in this edition is a discussion of peer review within special contexts for teaching, such as clinics, studios, and practice settings. The turn to active engagement in learning has also led to increased use of problem-based learning, the case study method, and other approaches that traditional forms for peer review do not address. Similarly, the explosion of the use of instructional technology calls for an articulation of new approaches to evaluating web-based instruction..
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"This book should be required reading for all teachers and administrators seriously seeking ways to engage teachers in their own professional development and learning."
Rudolph F. Crew, Former Chancellor
New York City Schools

"The book is an action-oriented game plan to improve teachers' performance-designed, initiated, and implemented by teachers. It tackles one of education's toughest issues-teacher isolation."
Anne Bryant, Executive Director
National School Boards Association

"The authors present a wonderfully simple idea for turning a school into a learning community. It is a powerful, growth-oriented strategy for creating instructional focus in a school."
Roy D. Nichols, Jr., Superintendent of Schools
Troup County (GA) Board of Education

Dramatically enhance teaching and learning by reviving teacher collaboration!

Behind a simple equation, 2 + 2, lies a rich yet realistic approach to enhancing teaching and learning. As Collaborative Peer Coaching That Improves Instruction demonstrates, the current method of job appraisal consists of sporadic classroom visits from school administrators that frequently serve to reinforce teacher isolation rather than promote professional development. In contrast, the 2 + 2 method, a practice where teachers visit each other’s classrooms long enough to provide two compliments and two suggestions for improvement, has not only been proven to enhance teaching skills and student learning, but has also increased job satisfaction by reviving productive teacher collaboration.

Through the presentation of detailed case studies that illustrate the authors’ actual experience implementing the program at an inner city school, this work chronicles how the 2 + 2 method:

Restoresthe vital connections between teachers and students, teachers and administrators, and teachers and teachers

Encouragesteaching and learning to develop beyond what standardized tests reveal

Providesa low-cost, easy-to-implement program that is realistic, given teachers’ time constraints and limited school budgets

Transformsschools into cultures of collaborative teaching and learning

The 2 + 2 program is much more than a simple equation; it is a powerful tool that can revolutionize a school’s approach to teaching and learning.

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Foreword by Pat Hutchings and Ellen Wert

A course portfolio captures and makes visible the careful, difficult, and intentional scholarly work of planning and teaching a course and is an invaluable tool for documenting and reflecting on the quantity and quality of student learning. Illustrated through examples of course portfolios created through a four-year project on peer review of teaching, this book demonstrates that well-designed peer review can be integrated into the daily professional lives of faculty, improve faculty teaching by providing a guiding context for formative assessment and collaboration, and make the learning that comes from effective teaching visible and accessible for review within institutional reward systems.

Explicitly intended to help faculty conceptualize how their teaching and the student learning that results can be made visible, this book offers a model of peer review to document, assess, reflect on, and improve teaching and student learning through the use of a course portfolio. It provides a rationale for treating teaching as intellectual work, accompanied by a rich collection of materials—course portfolios, reviewers' comments, and portfolio authors' reflections drawn from more than 200 professors in various disciplines and institutions—that faculty can use to develop their own models for peer review of teaching.

Contents include:
• Making teaching and learning visible
• Benchmarking learning with a course portfolio
• Capturing the intellectual work of teaching
• Inquiring into specific aspects of teaching
• Seeking external review of a course portfolio
• Using course portfolios to foster campus collaboration
• Creating a campus community for the peer review of teaching
• Addressing larger issues of peer review.
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This comprehensive yet concise book provides a thorough and complete guide to every aspect of managing the peer review process for scientific journals. Until now, little information has been readily available on how this important facet of the journal publishing process should be conducted properly. Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals fills this gap and provides clear guidance on all aspects of peer review, from manuscript submission to final decision.

Peer Review and Manuscript Management in Scientific Journals is an essential reference for science journal editors, editorial office staff and publishers. It is an invaluable handbook for the set-up of new Editorial Offices, as well as a useful reference for well-established journals which may need guidance on a particular situation, or may want to review their current practices. Although intended primarily for journals in science, much of its content will be relevant to other scholarly areas.

This book is co-published with the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP) (www.alpsp.org)

ALPSP members are entitled to a 30% discount on this book..
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'Peer Review: A Survival Guide' is a practical handbook designed to help anybody who wants to get their work published in a scientific journal, wants to apply for research funds or who has to undergo formal appraisals at work. It will also help people who have been asked to review articles, abstracts or grant applications. These activities are an essential part of scientific life, yet they virtually never get covered in professional training. It is often difficult even to get any helpful information about the processes from journals, meetings or funders. For the first time, this book brings together all you need to know, with authoritative advice from three authors who have researched peer review extensively and have considerable practical experience as researchers, editors and reviewers..
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Ten practical Essays from industry experts giving specific techniques for effective peer code review..
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This digital document is an article from Journal of Higher Education, published by Ohio State University Press on September 1, 2001. The length of the article is 3109 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

Citation Details
Title: The Role of Faculty in Assessing Colleagues' Teaching The Peer Review of Teaching: A Sourcebook.(Review)
Author: Larry Keig
Publication:Journal of Higher Education (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 2001
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Volume: 72 Issue: 5 Page: 612

Article Type: Book Review

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