This paper presents the observations of three case studies, reflecting on the practices undertaken in various teaching evaluations. The case studies provide some insight into how many international institutions of higher education follow very traditional evaluation processes, even though they may differ significantly in cultural diversity and organization. Secondly, the paper emphasises the lac...

Teaching evaluation plays a key role for universities to improve its teaching quality and becomes a hotspot research field for related researchers. The paper takes university English teaching for example and presents a new model for evaluating English course teaching based on improved BP neural network. Firstly an evaluation indicator system of university English teaching is designed through an...

background: in order to transfer teachers’ knowledge, the presence of students is necessary in the classroom. despite numerous studies on the causes of absence, the strategies of its reduction have not been yet investigated and this study intends to address this issue. methods: inthis cross-sectional study 401 students were participated who were selected with systematic random sampling. the stu...

In recent years, there has been a growing emphasis on action research (Norton, 2009), accompanied by an increasing focus on staff evaluation. This paper aimed to evaluate a single teaching session of a new member to the profession. Forty-three second year undergraduate students responded to a standard teaching evaluation form and the ‘Stop, Start, Continue’ method (Angelo & Cross, 1993) of eval...

This study aimed to analyze the academic standards of teaching physical education methods according to competencies fields, identify student/teacher teaching competencies in motor expression teaching methods syllabus according to quality academic standards and designing teaching competencies evaluation form for student/teacher in fourth grade, Education Department, Faculty of Physical Education...

the present study,in order toidentifythe effect of teaching by socratic discussion on students' critical thinking disposition in university, was performed in the qualitative approach and by an action research method with theparticipants in one group of education undergraduate students, who were selected by purposeful sampling (n=20). collecting data were applied by “the standardized open-e...

Evaluations of clinicians' teaching performance are usually a preliminary, although essential, activity in quality management and improvement activities. This PhD project focused on testing the validity, reliability and impact of a performance evaluation system named the System of Evaluation of Teaching Qualities (SETQ) across specialities and centres in the Netherlands. The results of this pro...

With the comprehensive development of the quality education, more and more colleges begin to pay attention to the physical education for the college students. Evaluating the teaching quality for the physical education can enhance the physical teaching management of the colleges. In this paper, we combine the AHP method with the TOPSIS method and propose the RAHPTOPSIS method In order to evaluat...

Past research indicates several factors influencing teaching evaluation ratings instructors receive. We analyzed teaching evaluations from psychology courses during fall and spring semesters of 2003– 2004 to determine if class size, class level, instructor gender, number of publications (faculty instructors), average grade given by the instructor, and instructor rank predicted teaching evaluati...