performance evaluation is one of the important components of each organization, and educational organizations are not the exceptions. teachers are believed by many researchers as the single most important factor influencing student academic success or failure. therefore, they need to be at the center of attempts to improve or reform the educational system of any country. considering the pivotal...

there is a growing interest among the higher education principals and policy makers to improve teacher evaluation methods and more important than that to use the evaluation data. a number of research studies implied the ineffective instruction of esp courses in iran (atai, 2002; eslami, 2005; hayati, 2008; ahmadi, 2008; sherkatolabbasi & mahdavi, 2012; boniadi, ghojazadeh & rahmatvand, ...

introduction: this study was conducted to determine the most important strengths and weaknesses of the present evaluation system in tehran university of medical sciences and achieve the main factors to improve this system. method: it was a mixed method study design in two separate and sequential phases. the first phase was a qualitative step applying a document analysis method to interpret the ...

Current research points towards preschool and qualitative pedagogical relationships as being determined and formed by a close link between care and teaching. An Early Childhood Education should lead not only towards the acquisition of knowledge within specific areas but should also enhance the personal development of student teachers. New and creative competences need to be developed to cope wi...

introduction. evaluation is a process for merit assessment and quality improvement. during the past three decades one of the most important challenges has been student evaluation of teachers in higher education. more studies during recent decade have shown that evaluation of teachers has correlation with some variables like teacher enthusiasm, teacher rank, student expected grade and so on. the...

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As more states begin to adopt teacher evaluation systems based on value-added measures, legal challenges have been filed both seeing to limit the use of value-added measures (Cook v. Stewart) and others seeking to require more robust evaluation systems (Vergara v. California). This study reviews existing teacher evaluation systems and examines validity evidence supporting the use value-added sc...