Strides in Development of Medical Education

Teacher Evaluation by Students: A Comprehensive Approach

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Masoud Rahimi 1
Robabe Zarooj Hosseini 2
Mohsen Darabian 3
Abbas Ali Taherian 4
Ahmad Khosravi 5

1 M.Sc. in Nursing of Community Health, Instructor of Nursing Dept., School of Nursing & Midwifery, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

2 M.Sc. in Medical Education, Instructor of Nursing Dept., Medical Education Development Center, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

3 Subspecialist in Cardiology, Associate Professor of Cardiology Dept., School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

4 General Practitioner, School of Medicine, Semnan University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

5 Ph.D. Candidate in Epidemiology, Instructor of Basic Sciences, School of Medicine, Shahroud University of Medical Sciences, Iran.

Abstract
Background & Objectives: One of the common approaches for teacher evaluation is evaluation by students and in this relation considering the opinions of teachers as main targets of this process is important The aim of this study was a systematic review of the researches performed about the opinions of faculty members of the country towards evaluation of teacher by students Methods: The abstracts of 1750 papers presented in Iran Medical Education Congresses since 1979 as well as related articles indexed in Iranian databases and International databases (PubMed & Scopus) were reviewed by using keywords such as teacher evaluation evaluation by student self evaluation quality of teaching professors viewpoints education process satisfaction teaching method evaluation studies and feedback After a primary review 47 papers from different universities were selected and reviewed by different research groups Finally the obtained data were emerged based on criteria defined in groups common meetings Results : Satisfaction rate of faculty members from evaluation was 478% and the effect of feed backing the evaluation results was 712% The highest satisfaction rate was related to the time of evaluation (mean 655%) and the majority of teachers believed that Education Development Center (EDC) is the best center for evaluation Mean score of selfevaluations by professors was higher than that Was done by students and there was poor correlation between these scores Conclusion: regarding to low satisfaction rate and weaknesses in this type of evaluation basic revisions and using multi source Fedback(MSF) for teachers are recommended

Keywords

evaluation
Faculty member
Systematic review
Feedback
Viewpoint
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Strides in Development of Medical Education
Volume 9, Issue 1
2012
Pages 34-45

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