Introduction. Using students' view points for teacher evaluation is a common method. But regardless of its abundant usage, research results indicate that students ideas about teachers is influenced by some factors which have not a close relation to the evaluation subject and is merely related to the teacher's specifications. Determining the views of students of different fields about priorities...

in the present study, professional conduct of clinical teachers in tehran university of medical sciences in iran was assessed by their residents (n=292) and fellowships (n=48) using a standard questioner called self-reported measurement equipment. this evaluation was a descriptive cross-sectional study. professionalism was questioned in four domains including clinical teacher-patient, clinical ...

Teacher education programs can play a principal role in helping prospective teachers to acquire requisite knowledge and skills. Vital to the issue of teacher education is the efficient evaluation of such programs in promoting prospective teachers’ knowledge base. However, the literature contains very few reports of the evaluation of the Iranian EFL preservice teacher education program, which is...

Background: The purpose of this study was to identify differences and similarities in teachers' and students’ viewpoints about the factors affecting this evaluation.Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 70 teachers and 148 students (34.86 % females and 65.13 males) of Tabriz University of Medical Sciences were selected by convenience sampling. Data were...

Background Teacher and principal evaluation systems now emerging in response to federal, state, or local policy initiatives typically require that a component of teacher evaluation be based on multiple performance measures. These measures must be combined to produce summative ratings of teacher effectiveness. The process of combining these metrics alone can influence the usefulness of the evalu...

PURPOSE New teacher evaluation systems have expanded the role of principals as instructional leaders, but little is known about principals' ability to promote teacher development through the evaluation process. We conducted a case study of principals' perspectives on evaluation and their experiences implementing observation and feedback cycles to better understand whether principals feel as tho...

The purpose of this study was to examine the postlecture evaluation by the students taking a course (Tomorrow's Leaders) that attempted to promote their leadership qualities and intrapersonal competencies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University in Hong Kong. Except for the last lecture, students were invited to respond to a 12-item postlecture questionnaire after each lecture. Results showed th...