PEER EVALUATION SYSTEM IN EDUCATION

Abstract

Currently, one of the components of a quality assurance system is peer assessment or review of teaching. Peer review is nonetheless occasionally viewed with apprehension and the sense that it could not be impartial and fair. This essay investigates how instructors view peer review as a tool to improve instruction. In two higher education institutions in the Sultanate of Oman, forty teachers were given a questionnaire to complete. The study produced several findings related to the instructors' perceptions of peer assessment and its effect on improving teaching quality.