Distributed leadership has been explored internationally as a leadership model that will promote and advance excellence in learning and teaching in higher education. This paper presents an assessment of how effectively distributed leadership was enabled at five Australian institutions implementing a collaborative teaching quality development scheme called the Peer Assisted Teaching Scheme. The Scheme brings together expertise from teams of academics, coordinators, and institutional learning and teaching portfolio holders to the shared goal of enhancing learning and teaching quality. A distributed leadership benchmarking tool was used to assess the Scheme’s effectiveness, and we found that (i) the Scheme is highly consistent with the distributed leadership benchmarks, and that (ii) the benchmarking tool is easily used in assessing the alignment (or otherwise) of teaching and learning quality initiatives with distributed leadership benchmarks. This paper will be of interest to those seeking to assess implementations of distributed leadership to improve teaching quality and leadership capacity.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	collaborative professional development, higher education, peer assisted teaching scheme
Research Division:	Education
Research Group:	Specialist Studies in Education
Research Field:	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
Objective Division:	Education and Training
Objective Group:	School/Institution
Objective Field:	Management and Leadership of Schools/Institutions
Author:	Drew, S (Dr Steve Drew)
ID Code:	114169
Year Published:	2017
Web of Science® Times Cited:	2
Deposited By:	Tasmanian Institute of Learning & Teaching
Deposited On:	2017-02-08
Last Modified:	2018-05-24
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