Factors affecting the evaluation of teachers by systematic and Delphi methods in the military university in Tehran

Background and Aim: Assessing the quality and evaluation of university professors is important to provide feedback on basic decision making, educational analysis and comprehensive and strategic planning for education officials. The purpose of this study was to identify factors affecting the evaluation of teachers at a military university. Methods: This study was conducted using systematic and Delphi methods in the military university of Tehran in 2016. The study included all published papers related to teaching quality. A search was performed of the following databases: SID, IranMedex, IranDoc, Magiran, PubMed, Ovid, Medline, Science Direct, Scopus, Web of Science databases and Google Scholar. Different combinations of keywords were used, and the search was limited to articles published from 2000 to 2016. The Delphi method was used for finalized and categorized factors a military university were. Results: Out of the 838 articles, 56 papers were considered relevant and 50 effective factors in the evaluation of teachers were extracted according to the frequency of their repetition in the articles. The conceptual model of assessment of educational faculty includes 4 dimensions: "teaching quality", "individual characteristics", "educational rules" and "professional features". This was obtained using the Delphi method. The teaching quality included 20 factors, individual characteristics included 8 factors, educational rules included 5 factors and professional characteristics included 16 factors. Conclusion: Professors should pay attention to the factors that influence educational evaluation at a military university that may not directly affect their academic performance. Professors should also aim to acquire effective educational evaluation scores. Academic centers should familiarize faculty members with the perspectives, methods and innovations available in the field of teaching quality.