OBJECTIVES Student evaluation of individual teachers is important in the quality improvement cycle. The aim of this study was to explore medical student and faculty perceptions of teacher evaluation in the light of dwindling participation in online evaluations. METHODS This study was conducted at the United Arab Emirates University College of Medicine & Health Sciences between September 2010 ...

The use of evaluation to examine and improve the quality of teaching and courses is now a component of most universities. However, despite the various methods and opportunities for evaluation, a lack of understanding of the processes, measures and value are some of the major impediments to effective evaluation. Evaluation requires an understanding of what to evaluate, how to evaluate it, how to...

Despite critical voices lectures are still an important teaching format in current medical curricula. With the curricular reform at Hamburg Medical Faculty in the year 2004, all subject specific lectures were replaced by cardinal symptom oriented lectures (LSV) in the new clinical curriculum. LSVs are taught throughout all six thematic blocks in years three to five. Since regular student evalua...

The aim of this article is to solve teaching quality evaluation problems within higher education institutions. However, the evaluation process includes complex analysis of teaching resources and the learning environment. As a result, it is very difficult to evaluate teaching quality accurately and quantitatively. The research carried out quantitatively analyses and evaluates the quality of teac...

OBJECTIVE To identify and compare learning activities that students associate with high quality teaching across clerkships. METHODS For six months, 110 third year medical students recorded data on learning activities and teaching quality using personal digital assistants (PDAs) during five different required clinical clerkships. Univariate and multivariate analyses were performed to assess th...

This article outlines the main types of reliability and validity for psychometric instruments by looking at the example of student evaluation of teaching effectiveness (SETE). In the USA, in particular, students are asked to rate their lecturers in terms of quality of teaching, for example. Psychometric questionnaires used to do this have to show that the scores gained for lecturers are an accu...

background: research about teaching methods and students' education is an important subject which can improve the quality of education. this study was performed to compare three educational methods: teaching through lecture, presentation by small group of students, student's search and study of topics before the class. methods: this quasi-experimental study was conducted on 42 student...