Teacher quality is an important factor in improving student achievement. As such, policymakers have constructed a number of different credentials to identify high quality teachers. Unfortunately, few of the credentials used in developing countries have been validated (in terms of whether teachers holding such credentials actually improve student achievement). In this study, we employ a student-...

Student evaluation of teaching is ubiquitous to teaching in colleges and universities around the world. Since the implementation of student evaluations in the 1970s in the US, considerable research has been devoted to their appropriate use as a means of judging the effectiveness of teaching. The present article aims to (1) examine the evidence for the reliability, validity, and utility of stude...

research in public policy centre for market and public organisation Student achievement and teacher turnover what is the link?

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abstract introduction : students and faculty members are two key elements of evaluation so the use of both views com help better understand the strengths and weaknesses of the learning and teaching processes therefore this study aimed to compare self and students' evaluation of academic advisors , performance in arak university of medical sciences. methods and material : this is an analytical a...

Introduction. Evaluation is one of the characteristic issues of education process and help us to assess deficiency and powerty of education programs and solve the problems of education. Methods. In this study a proper questionnaire was distributed and answered by instructors. Then information was analyzed by SPSS software. Results. In this study 72.5% of instructors used formative evaluatio...