Beyond student and peer review: other measures of performance in learning and teaching

This session, presented by Emeritus Professor Denise Chalmers AM, is proudly hosted by the Adelaide Education Academy.

One of the challenges with recognising and rewarding excellence in Learning and Teaching is the challenge of measuring performance. Student and peer reviews can provide evidence of what occurs in the classroom, but not what occurs outside of the classroom.

This presentation will review the strengths/weaknesses of student and peer reviews and explore other evidence of performance in learning and teaching and how to recognise this within a measurement based system of promotion and rewards.

Attend in person to enjoy a valuable networking opportunity with members of the Adelaide Education Academy and other, fellow educators.

Lunch will be provided for those attending in person.

If you are unable to attend in person please select the Zoom option when registering through Eventbrite.


Denise Chalmers

Professor Emeritus, Denise Chalmers AM

About the presenter

Denise Chalmers, Professor Emeritus in the field of higher education teaching and learning at the University of Western Australia, was awarded an OLT Senior National Teaching Fellowship on recognising and rewarding university teaching in 2015 and an Australian Award for University Teaching: Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning in 2014. In 2017 she was awarded Life membership by HERDSA. She was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia (AM) in 2022 for service to tertiary education and to professional associations. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for LUMS University, Pakistan.

She has over 25 years demonstrated leadership in higher education, leading two university Centres of Teaching and Learning as Director and was a Foundation Director of the Carrick Institute. She has served as President and Vice President of the Council of Australian Directors of Academic Development (CADAD) 2008-2014. She was President of the Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA) (2019-21).

She has initiated and led several institutional, national and international initiatives and projects including developing and embedding teaching quality criteria and indicators and promoting the use of teaching and learning performance indicators to guide decision making and resource allocation.听 She has published widely on teaching and learning in higher education.

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