Preliminary data analysis of course evaluations, lecturer interviews and focus groups from the first action research cycle is presented.
Several recent studies have shown that male lecturers consistently receive higher student evaluation scores than female lecturers, even though there is no evidence that they are more effective teachers (teaching effectiveness is generally measured here by subsequent student performance).
Lecturers' punctuality received a positive evaluation from all 108 students in 2002, but only from 72%8181 students) in 2003, and this was statistically significant (Table 1 – item 4).
In the "complex problem" treatment, four more criteria were added: Average evaluation score of lecturers by students in previous semesters (maximize), percentage of students who passed the course having the lowest pass rate in the selected course schedule (maximize), prospective average number of students in class (minimize), and average grade obtained by students in past courses.
A physics lecturer said she had received evaluation forms that made special comments about her prettiness and another lecturer received one that noted she was a good teacher but, more importantly, looked sexy.
There are flaws in regard to curriculum development, lecturer qualification and CIPE training evaluation.
Therefore, relying on the student feedback alone in the evaluation of a lecturer's performance may not be valid.
In teaching skills and knowledge, which could be considered more relevant to the teaching process, the coefficients were less than 0.3 and 0.15 respectively, offering support to the theory that relying on the student feedback alone in the evaluation of a lecturer's performance may not be valid.
Positive feedback was received at a collaborating university in a pilot evaluation of early childhood lecturers and students, paving the way for further development and studies.
The complexities associated with delivering high quality medical education programs involving multiple lecturers can make course and instructor evaluation challenging.
