School should ask students to evaluate their teachers.

School should ask students to evaluate
their teachers.
Forum 2
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
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.