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.
Regarding the question of who was and who should be involved in evaluating teaching effectiveness, educators and students rated five categories of evaluators: administrators, educators, students, peers, and heads of groups (i.e., heads of undergraduate program areas, including medical-surgical, psychiatric, pediatric, health, and administration).
The current emphasis on testing and "outcomes" in evaluating teaching is unlikely to do much to raise student-achievement levels — good teaching requires creativity in the classroom, not adherence to a prescribed regimen.
True, one would have to evaluate teaching in a less mechanical way than by mass tests.
The Art of Teaching, Session 2: Using Portfolios to Improve and Evaluate Teaching, by Robin Wright, 25 May 2001.
We used a mixed method design to evaluate teaching behaviors in traditional and collaborative classrooms.
In the STeLLA project, the Lesson Analysis Protocol that frames video analysis removes the inclination to evaluate teaching to do careful observation and analysis to inform teaching decisions.
The goal of this review is to consolidate and evaluate teaching resources for fungal biology available through the internet for undergraduate education.
