Siri Sofie Vasrud Bastiansen

Aims: the focus in this paper is to empirically examine how a peer review approach is implemented and managed in practice. The contextual basis of this examination is peer review of supervision (PRS) with a focus on improving the master supervision at a specific faculty at a large university in Norway. The PRS is an approach where supervisors participate in structured, group-based collaborative peer tutoring sessions.

This review study relates to the PeTS project’s aim of studying and developing collaborative communities of practice in supervision and teaching in a University setting. The project focuses on the ways in which teachers observe and provide feedback on each other’s classroom teaching or supervision practices. As a point of departure for this paper, we use the term peer review of teaching (PRT) to refer to all practices that involve peer observation, tutoring and mentoring of both teaching and supervision among academic teachers at higher education institutions.