What is peer review of teaching (PRT)? Peer review is recognized in academia as a measure for ensuring quality work that meets standards and expectations among experts. Similarly, peer review of ...

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 ...

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 ...

(This is the third post in a four-part series. You can see Part One here and Part Two here.) Part Two in this series included commentaries by Rita Platt, Paul Solarz, Laurie Buffington, Dr. Laura ...

Sandhya Kumar ’26, a Crimson Editorial editor, is a double concentrator in Molecular & Cellular Biology and Statistics in Winthrop House. Amid the hiring freeze and funding uncertainty, Harvard has ...

The foundation upon which institutions of higher education are built is peer learning — the idea that students learn more effectively through interaction, collaboration, and discussion with other ...

Peer-led education was found to have a greater impact on multiple sclerosis (MS) health literacy than lecture-based education, a recent study from Iran demonstrated. A study comparing education styles ...

Here’s how peer learning, alumni networks, and institutional support are reimagining top-down teacher training models. “Government teachers aren’t interested in teaching.” This is a commonly held ...

In higher education, peer review stands as the prime means for ensuring that scholarship is of the highest quality, and from it flows consequential assessments that shape careers, disciplines, and ...

On the scale of most anxiety-producing moments in teaching, few things top the dreaded peer observation. True, there are plenty of other sources of teaching angst, but none of them quite match the ...