We have an electronic questionnaire and we analyse the results.

I wrote an article and I send to you.

· Strategies to evaluate teaching practices in staff development frameworks at Stefan cel Mare University, Suceava in vol. Preparare alla professionalita docente e innovare la didattica universitaria, coord. E. Felisatti & A. Serbati, Ed Franco Angeli, 2017, ISBN 978-88-917-3435-8, pp. 143-157 (https://www.francoangeli.it/Ricerca/Scheda_Libro.aspx?ID=24635&Tipo=Libro&strRicercaTesto=&lingua=it&titolo=preparare+alla+professionalita+docente+e+innovare+la+didattica+universitaria++)

All the best,

Otilia CLIPA

Distinguished colleague

The limitations of teacher evaluation as a process are several.

There has been a lot of discussion about one of them, which seems fundamental to me: injustice and its demobilizing effect.

A teacher evaluation when it is not purified, can produce effects contrary to its end. The objective of the teaching evaluation must be the constant improvement of the service.

The valuable work you have written and kindly shared at this time goes a long way in understanding evaluation as a process.

Thank you

Hello. thanks for the interesting question. unfortunately, there is no formal evaluation. some departments sometimes distribute survey to investigate students' views about their teachers and their way of teaching.

Thank you very much dear colleague Hameda Suwaed

The ways of evaluating professors at the university are diverse, however, there is a trend that is oriented towards harmonizing the evaluation of teachers with institutional evaluation, that is, seeking ways to complement both.

I reiterate my thanks

I have been reading this valuable work and it seems opportune to share it:

Zhang, Xiaoyue ; Shi, Wanbing. (2019). Research about the university teaching performance evaluation under the data envelopment method,. Cognitive Systems Research,, 56, 108-115. doi:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogsys.2018.11.004

The students evaluate teachers in module feedback and through the National Student Survey (NSS). Some UK universities also participate in the (voluntary) Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF).

Dear Dr. David Benbow

Very grateful for your valuable response, I would like to add the following comment:

It has been said for some time that more than half of the students at prestigious universities, Cambridge and Oxford, previously attended public schools.

This magnificent indicator speaks for itself of the educational quality of the levels of state pre-university.

Cheers

Reinaldo

Is this even done in Nigerian Universities and other tertiary institutions?

Not at all

Dear Gift Adene

It is interesting to know your answer

Any opinion on the incidence of this practice in professional performance is appreciated

Thanks a lot

Evaluated by whom? (Is not given in the question.) Two universities I have taught for only let students evaluate teachers. The management either prefers not to evaluate them or doesn't know how. The students often use non-qualitative criteria such as ""he (professor) gave me more work to do than I wanted".

Dear Alberto

It is really a problem to achieve the comprehensiveness and objectivity of professional evaluation in Higher Education.

There are many disagreements, the criterion of prioritizing customer satisfaction, that is, the student, inevitably creates problems.

I heard a colleague say that Education is the only business in which the buyer wants to receive fewer products for which they are paying, that is: the student wants less content to be taught, they also want the tests to be (affordable) although with this decrease is compromised basic nuclei of professional knowledge that later the graduate himself will need in his professional practice. My colleague continued explaining: in short, state and free educational systems have the strength of not having to please the student, yes or yes. Good state education systems are governed by academic guidelines, not just by the income they receive as a result of their services, services that include payment of student fees in the first place.

Reinaldo, I correct and apologize for "it is not given in the question" -- I meant the first statement of it in bold font, but then the text of your explanation begins: "Who evaluate ...". So it is given in the question elaboration.

As to your comment, a first step in improving the process may be to allow the professor being evaluated to provide feedback on the student's evaluations, so that the manager can see a bigger picture informed by the professor's explanation of his/her objectives, method, and presentation-development.

Thank you very much Dr. Alberto

Fully agree with your valuable argumentation

In Nigeria, teachers in tertiary education are evaluated in some quarters by the institution's mgt by using their publication output and students' success rate in the courses taught by the teacher/lecturer. But there is not an established policy where students assess their teachers may be using a standard survey. Doing that, that is allowing students to be part of the assessment is good to some degree. It will aid the decision-makers if the institution knows who to give tenure or promotion. Parameters like the ability to simplify a concept to the understanding of the students, the ability to follow up on student's feedback, the ability to cover the syllabi, etc are the likely boxes the students can help tick for the assessment of the teacher's performance.

On the other hand, the performance should not entirely be left in the hands of the students. Because the students, like it has been said here, will like to give thumbs up to a lecturer or teacher who gives them the easy areas thereby making everything easy for them compared to the one who will make efforts to bring out the necessary content of the course(s). The assessment should be holistically carried out by bringing in the students assessment based on the aforementioned parameters, and other key areas of assessment like the publications, ability to teach using other methods like having a YouTube channel, a blog where students can further learn more about what's being taught in the classroom.

I may not have covered the required scope of the answer to this question due to the haste with which I dropped this answer. I'm therefore open to corrections to enable me properly redirect the foci of the answer subsequently.

Chibuzo.

Of course. We have a program which is compulsory to pass every 5 years for all the teaching staff. There is a comission specially appointed to perform that evaluation.

Reinaldo Requeiro, if you are interested, you can see the whole thing in our website: https://www.uic.es/es/universidad/uic-barcelona/portal-de-transparencia/informacion-institucional/calidad-educativa

Best.