School should ask students to evaluate their teachers.

Introduction What is teacher evaluation?. Teacher evaluation : giving information about the teacher’s performance knowledge and skills to identify teacher effectiveness, as well as to i

School should ask students to evaluate

their teachers

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Introduction

What is teacher evaluation?

Teacher evaluation : giving information about the teacher’s performance knowledge and skills

to identify teacher effectiveness, as well as

to improve the quality of teaching

Methods

1 Student evaluation of teachers

Student evaluation is a subjective evaluation of teachers, which may or may not correct, designed to elicit

information about the teacher’s performance knowledge and skills from a student

Methods

2 Teacher interview

+ reduces possible interviewer bias

+ the low correlation between highly rated interviews and subsequent evaluations

of teacher effectiveness

Methods

3 Competency Testing

+ guarantee a basic knowledge level, eliminate interviewer bias, and are legally defensible

(Darling-Hammond and others, 1983)

Methods

4 Classroom Observation

+ the most popular evaluation method

+ reveals information about such things

as teacher interaction and rapport with pupils + be potentially biased, invalid, and unreliable (Darling-Hammond and others, 1983)

Methods

5 Peer Review

+Teaching colleagues observe each other's classroom

and examine lesson plans, tests, and graded assignments +Disadvantages include time consumption

and possible peer conflict

Methods

6 Student Achievement :

+Research shows that under certain conditions

test scores are positively correlated with teacher

behavior (Woolever, 1985)

+ But scores also depend on inherent student qualities, such as I.Q., which are independent of teacher influence (Darling-Hammond and others, 1983)

Situation

In the world:

-student evaluation of teacher method has been known for many years but it is still not very popular nowadays -The study of educational researchers in America has

found that there are about 20% of universities in the

world use this method to understand quality of teachers

Situation

In Vietnam:

-student evaluation of teacher method has not been popular in Vietnam also

Chu Van An high school is the leader in applying this method since 4 years ago

-According to Ministry of Vietnamese Education

Student evaluation of teacher will be applied in most schools in Vietnam in 2010