Some teachers pass weak students even when they have not shown that they understand the concepts that the course teaches. Some students do not provide accurate evaluation of their courses or course teacher. Then, Should students' overall performance in a course or their evaluation of the course/course teacher be taken as a reliable measure of the performance of the course teacher?
All good points! To me, I think we need to first teach students how to give feedback, then have an evaluation instrument that is not judgmental, but rather constructive and something with which instructors can use in his/her professional development.
If the teacher clears the students over an evaluation even when they arent capable means that is the MISTAKE of the TEACHER... this is in no way good either to the student or the Teacher... instead they can keep stretching the bar over a period of time by having them clear EASY / NOT SO EASY / MODERATELY DIFFICULT / DIFFICULT questions like that...
Factors influencing this inference are (these are just a few)
- size of class
- type of assignments (group or single)
- balance between theoretical and practical input and student performance tests
- parallelism of new concepts over different classes
- time since the concept was introduced
- importance of contribution to the overall success of the study
- type of study (fulltime vs. parttime vs. distant)
- ...
I don't think that a teacher can be reverse-graded by the performance of her/his students.
However, I use a personal metric to measure my performance using the above factors in a combined measure. I still experiment with the weights though.
No. It should not be. The problem here is that Learning is the responsibility of the student. If students do not learn, is it the fault of the teacher? Some students can and will learn in spite of bad teaching. Some students will not learn even with the best teaching.
In our staff assessment we weight student evaluations lower than other teacher evaluation sources (peer reviews, HOD evaluation etc). We acknowledge the fact that student evaluations are not as reliable as we would like. However, we do recognize the fact that consistent complaints (and compliments) should be flagged for appropriate action. We also acknowledge the fact that very few students would highly rate a teacher who challenges them to be self learners; at the same time, a teacher who could do that and get good evaluations has to be a star.
All good points! To me, I think we need to first teach students how to give feedback, then have an evaluation instrument that is not judgmental, but rather constructive and something with which instructors can use in his/her professional development.
Dear Isaac
My humble opinion, there are multiple factors, factor to factor interactions and noise... Hence analysing teacher based on students performance is a misleading interpretation.
Kindest Regards
Ramanan
Mostly good performances would be a result and commitment/dedication from teachers and students together.
Teachers do pose requirements. When you pose requirements to a large number of people (such as a class) you normally observe three responses: some just pass the requirement - more or less easily - some strive to meet it (regardless of whether they actually make it or not), believing that it is their duty to meet the requirement, some will just show no effort, complain loudly and blame the teacher. The third category (which I never experienced to represent the majority) is normally the loudest, so it tends to bias the perception of the external observer. For instance, in my university student ratings are not obligatory, which entails that the students who fill in the forms are usually those with a chip on their shoulder.
If there were some means to eliminate the third category from the statistics (maybe there is, I just don't know of any) students ratings would be a reliable indicator of a teacher's performance . Otherwise, I'd say that ratings should be taken with a large grain of salt. In any case, I agree that consistent trends (over the years) are a good starting point.
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