performance evaluation is one of the important components of each organization, and educational organizations are not the exceptions. teachers are believed by many researchers as the single most important factor influencing student academic success or failure. therefore, they need to be at the center of attempts to improve or reform the educational system of any country. considering the pivotal...

there is a growing interest among the higher education principals and policy makers to improve teacher evaluation methods and more important than that to use the evaluation data. a number of research studies implied the ineffective instruction of esp courses in iran (atai, 2002; eslami, 2005; hayati, 2008; ahmadi, 2008; sherkatolabbasi & mahdavi, 2012; boniadi, ghojazadeh & rahmatvand, ...

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 ...

introduction: this study was conducted to determine the most important strengths and weaknesses of the present evaluation system in tehran university of medical sciences and achieve the main factors to improve this system. method: it was a mixed method study design in two separate and sequential phases. the first phase was a qualitative step applying a document analysis method to interpret the ...

Current research points towards preschool and qualitative pedagogical relationships as being determined and formed by a close link between care and teaching. An Early Childhood Education should lead not only towards the acquisition of knowledge within specific areas but should also enhance the personal development of student teachers. New and creative competences need to be developed to cope wi...

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. the...

There is also a growing consensus that evidence of teachers’ contributions to student learning should be a component of teacher evaluation systems, along with evidence about the quality of teachers’ practice. “Value Added Models” (VAMs) for looking at gains in student test scores from one year to the next are promoted as tools to accomplish this goal. Policy makers can benefit from research abo...

Should Value-Added Models Control for Student Absences?* Whether or not value-added models should control for contemporaneous student absences is theoretically ambiguous, as such absences are only partly outside of teachers’ control. Teachers often feel strongly that value-added models should account for student attendance, and many districts’ value-added models condition on lagged student abse...