introduction. the most important aim of teacher evaluation by students is feedback to teachers in order to inform the negative and positive points of their lectures and manners. the aim of this study was to investigate teachers’ attitudes towards the report of their evaluation results and effective factors in assessment variation. methods. the research was a descriptive study using a questionna...

Introduction. Evaluation is a process for merit assessment and quality improvement. During the past three decades one of the most important challenges has been student evaluation of teachers in higher education. More studies during recent decade have shown that evaluation of teachers has correlation with some variables like teacher enthusiasm, teacher rank, student expected grade and so on. T...

introduction: the framework convention tobacco control (fctc) is designed by world health organization (who), in response to the globalization of the tobacco epidemic, in 2003. all treaty signatories including iran adopted to perform it during 3 years. this study was performed to design a model for evaluation of the implementation of this treaty in iran. methods: this study was a qualitative st...

In recent discussions regarding concerns about the academic achievement of US students, educational policy makers have suggested the implementation of certain teacher policies. To address the limited empirical research on the putative educational impact of such policies, this study used multilevel structural equation models to investigate the longitudinal associations between teacher evaluation...

In 2009, TNTP’s The Widget Effect documented the failure to recognize and act on differences in teacher effectiveness. We revisit these findings by compiling teacher performance ratings across 24 states that adopted major reforms to their teacher evaluation systems. In the vast majority of these states, the percentage of teachers rated Unsatisfactory remains less than 1%. However, the full dist...

This paper presents some ideas to preschool educators and policy makers about how to make validated educational models central in standards for preschool education-and-care programs that are available to all 3-and 4-year-olds. An educational model is a coherent body of program practices, curriculum content, program and child assessment, and teacher training. Educational models are meant to cont...