When an instructor adopts teaching materials, he/she wants some measure of confidence that the resource is effective, correct, and robust. The measurement of the quality of a resource is an open problem. It is our thesis that the traditional approach to peer review is not sufficient to insure the quality of teaching tools. This working group will focus on the evaluation process by applying a new review model to teaching resources. The working group will refine the model, and will work towards the development of reviewer training materials.

The new model of review will be applied (at least) to the resources of the Computer Science Teaching Center, which is a digital library for computer science educators. The development of the CSTC is supported by the National Science Foundation and by the ACM Education Board. Our work will also be made available to other initiatives of this kind, such as the JLearn repository, the Java Co-odination Teaching Group at Monash Univeristy, Australia and those working within the Educational Object Economy model.

Applicable Conference Topics: Evaluating teaching methods, Computer science education research, Impact of technology on the curriculum, Innovative instructional methods, Electronic forms of class support, Instructional technology, Emerging technologies.