Tag: assessment
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Educator Well-Being Initiative
GOAL: Enhancing the Well-Being of Veterinary and Biomedical Educators A short introduction to the RTA and the Educator Well-Being Initiative.
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Inter-Institutional Collaboration for the Development of a Local Peer Observation Process to Enhance Teaching
Best Practices Local peer observation of teaching is considered an important mechanism for instructors to improve the quality and effectiveness of their teaching, but there is an absence of uniformity to establish a best practice for this process in veterinary curricula. The Regional Teaching Academy (RTA) of the Consortium of Western Colleges of Veterinary Medicine…
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An Inter-Institutional External Peer-Review Process to Evaluate Educators at Schools of Veterinary Medicine
Institutional Policy Despite its fundamental importance, the educational mission of most schools of veterinary medicine receives far less recognition and support than the missions of research and discovery. This disparity is evident in promotion and tenure processes. Despite the frequent assertion that education is every college’s core mission, there is a broad consensus that faculty…