Peer review: points to consider
- COPUS seems like a useful tool for IL. It takes some minimal training to get started, but gets easier as you use it.
- Turn it into a document like: this one-off classes, or this term long class taught by a librarian using an older version. The template was graciously shared from another academic department, I have modified it only slightly.
- Train peer reviewers to use the COPUS tool.
- Designate a person to schedule peer reviews.
- Conversation before and after an observation is a great time to make the process a “formative” evaluation.
Self-presentation: points to consider
- Teaching Practices Inventory, although it’s only for term long courses, so we’ll need to adjust (and then it wouldn’t be nationally calibrated). Here is the TPI I set up for use to try at the UO.
- As librarians the opportunity to name things they want to focus on moving forward, then track those things across evaluative moments so each evaluation seems more connected, part of a longer arc.
Additional reading/sources:
COPUS resources here.
Lots on TPI here, including a link to a social sciences version. There is also a spreadsheet on this page with the values of the TPI responses.