The combination of the two instruments in the SETQ system offers a valuable structure to evaluate teaching qualities of obstetrics and gynecology faculty.
The components of this questionnaire may constitute a basis for the development of an assessment tool to evaluate teaching the teachers courses for EBM [ 16].
Academic clinical medicine the "capacity of the health care system to think, study, research, discover, evaluate, teach, learn and improve" [ 18]), has recently been described as in jeopardy [ 19], at a crossroads [ 20]and in need of revitalisation [ 18].
However, the literature indicates that little attention has been paid to the topic of nursing educator evaluation and evaluating teaching effectiveness in Iran as well as in North America and other parts of the world.
The items relate to methods of evaluation, evaluation practices, evaluators, beliefs about teaching and learning, criteria for evaluating teaching effectiveness, evaluation elements, and selected personal and professional variables.
The purpose of this paper is to report on the perceptions of nursing educators and students in Iran with respect to actual and preferred evaluation methods – who evaluates and how – including identification of their beliefs about the teaching-learning process, criteria for evaluating teaching effectiveness, and the impact of evaluation elements on teaching-learning outcomes.
They also emphasized the importance of educator evaluation and of evaluation outcomes, of having these evaluations done by different individuals, of having a systematic and continuous evaluation process and of using different approaches to evaluating teaching effectiveness.
True, one would have to evaluate teaching in a less mechanical way than by mass tests.
