Peer Review Resources

Have you considered peer review as a means to improve instruction? This method is already being used by 40% of the colleges and universities in the United States. The University of Minnesota Center for Teaching and Learning has a great page of resources on the subject that could be used to develop a peer review standards initiative at your library. Scott Walter (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) has compiled a great list of conference papers and models for instructional improvement in academic libraries that include peer review discussions.

Peer Coaching Bibliography

"Peer Coaching is a confidential process through which two or more professional colleagues work together to review current practices; expand, refine, and build new skills; share ideas; teach one another; conduct classroom research; and solve problems in the workplace." -

from Slater, C.L. and Simmons, D.L., "The Design and Implementation of a Peer Coaching Program." American Secondary Education, v. 29, n. 3, [Spring 2001],67 - 76.

Click here for a peer coaching bibliography; a few of the references at the end of the list are online.