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CofC Libraries Instruction and Assessment: Peer Observation

CofC Librarians and Archivists are available to provide credit bearing, scheduled, and point of need instruction to ensure users have access to regular and timely instruction in the use of library and other learning/information resources.

Peer Observation of Instruction

Peer instruction observation is a tool that allows College librarians to demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of library instruction and should be used as evidence for tenure and promotion packets. It is strongly recommended for College Libraries faculty members whose core responsibilities include instruction and who document instruction in their Faculty Activity Report (annual evaluation) or dossier for promotion and tenure.

Observations must be conducted by any full-time tenured library faculty member at The College of Charleston. It is recommended that the peer observer have instruction experience, but it is not required.

Scheduled Instruction Observation

FREQUENCY
  • Other instruction (course-related and non-credit instruction such as information literacy sessions, workshops, etc.):
    • Provisional tenure years or promotion: two peer observations prior to third-year, two prior to tenure review, and two more prior to further promotion.
    • Tenured: one observation every two years (or as the frequency of credit instruction assignments allows).

Credit-Bearing Instruction Observation

FREQUENCY
  • Credit-bearing instruction (in which a College Libraries faculty member is the instructor of record of a course taught for academic credit):
    • Provisional tenure years or promotion: one observation per course per year.
    • Tenured: one observation per course every two years (or as the frequency of credit instruction assignments allows).