Mission Statement: The PRT project seeks to enhance student learning through the use of cooperative peer review teams.

Vision Statement: The PRT project is a faculty-driven initiative to offer individual faculty added feedback related to instruction. Faculty members work together to set goals and to interpret student reactions to instruction strategies. The process is intentionally limited to formative assessment, and the individual faculty members will own the peer review data.

Action Plan: Each participant in the PRT project will accomplish the following tasks:

1) Observe the teaching materials and teaching activity of a peer for at least one class per semester.
      a. Provide meaningful feedback to your peer related to her/his syllabus.
      b. Provide meaningful feedback to your peer based on two to three classroom observations of her/his teaching strategies.
      c. Provide meaningful feedback to your peer related to the evidence of student learning that your peer collects from her or his students.
2) Attend about two to three meetings/semester with your small group and the PRT Board Member.
3) Write one brief reflective essay per semester, based on your goals and feedback from your peer. The essays must be completed no later than the last day of the semester and should be approximately one page in length. The essays should consist of three parts:
      a. Scholarship of the syllabus (changes/modifications to the syllabus and/or affirmation of your practices in the syllabus based on peer review),
      b. Teaching strategies (new techniques/methods and/or affirmation of the existing methods that you have used in your class based on classroom observations and feedback from your peer),
      c. Evidence of student learning (new techniques/methods and/or affirmation of the existing methods that you have used to collect and measure student learning).
Your reflective essays will be posted on the PRT web site as a resource to others, and they will be sent electronically to your board member, who will summarize the results for your group. The board will forward a report to the University Senate and the Provost.
4) At the end of each semester, complete a brief online numerical rating scale that summarizes your activity in and your assessment of the PRT project. This rating scale should not take more than ten minutes to complete. The identity of all respondents will remain anonymous.
5) At the end of the academic year, having completed the above requirements, the Provost will recognize your efforts by providing a certificate at a noon banquet.