Opinion of academic members of Kerman University of Medical Sciences about educational evaluation of lecturers, 2002-2003

Introduction: Educational evaluation is a continuous and regular process to describe, guide and ensure the quality of educational activities. The objective of this research is to survey the opinion of faculty of Kerman University of Medical Sciences about educational evaluation of lecturers. Methods: This study was undertaken by a questionnaire using reliable internal and external sources. The reliability and validity of the questionnaire was examined by test-retest and Delphy validity. The method of sampling was numeration. 113 questioners were collected. The Data was analyzed by SPSS software and Mann-Whitney and Kruskal-Wallis test was used. Results: The results indicated that in case of doing evaluation, the majority of lecturers (95.6%) believed that an awareness of evaluations results was very effective in improving the teaching methods. In suitability of question category (attention to transfer, the concept and making students understand) was chosen as the best question to evaluate the lecturers by the students (95.6%). The lowest score was allocated to giving some exams during the semester. In the Methods of lecturer evaluation category, multi-evaluation received the highest score (86.7%). Conclusion: Lecturers’ evaluations were influenced by several factors such as: number of students, the time of completion of questionnaires, faculty grade, rank, so multi-evaluation with suitable performance and secret feedback to the lecturers is recommended. It is better to use the evaluation results to encourage the faculty and to give more accreditation to the results in annual promotion and selecting the best master.