Acknowledgments

This guide is informed by the reports and efforts of various Faculty-based and campus-wide committees engaged in discussions on peer assessments, observations, valuing, and evaluating teaching at McMaster University including, most notably: the Peer Observation of Teaching Initiative (Program for Faculty Development, Faculty of Health Science, 2016), the Peer Teaching Assessment Guidelines (Faculty of Social Science, July 2019), the MacPherson/Engineering Partnership Committee on Assessing Teaching report (Faculty of Engineering, November 2018), the Ad Hoc Committee on Department Teaching Evaluation Report (Faculty of Science, 2018), and the Valuing and Evaluating Teaching (VET) Hub. The guide is also indebted to the work of various contributors including Lisa Dyce, Brandon Woolridge, Jenny Blaney, Erin Allard, Biljana Njegovan, and Maddie Brockbank within the MacPherson Institute.