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
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).