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11.14 独立
The teaching performance of teachers has always been a core in educational affairs, which concerns directly with the interests of both students and teachers. Thus the issue that who evaluates the teaching performance of teachers deserves much attention. Feasible as it looks at first sight, collecting information reflecting a teacher’s teaching quality from other teachers may cause potential problems, and thus I note that students’ evaluation is more useful. Several factors, such as the incentives and the foundation, contribute to this issue. The reasons will be further illustrated as followings.
To begin with, it is the students who are the direct audiences of the class, and who eventually benefit from the improvement of teacher’s performance, so they are the real testers of the teachers. Others teachers who merely sit on about several minutes in the class every term cannot definitely know the whole teaching performance of a teacher; in addition, from their own perspective, their cognition of the class has limitations since they may not know students’ need clearly. For instance, last semester, I took a business class called International Trade, which was scored high and strongly recommended by other professors. However, when I was in the class, I found it totally different from what I had imagined----I had expected to learn something more practical instead of theoretical models, and through the whole class, the professor just read the slides on the screen, which was as dry as a chip. Therefore, students could better select the classes they need and teachers could improve their teaching skills provided the evaluation of students.
Moreover, since the reward given to a teacher has something to do with the collected information, the conflictions led by complicated interest relationship among teachers are able to be avoided if the students make evaluation of the teaching performance. Because the rewards will be given to the teachers who have the most efficient teaching, it is entirely possible that teachers would mark others lower on purpose and form a vicious circle in the end. For example, last year in a university in China, such a thing happened. The directors of the university were going to promote several candidate teachers from associate professors to full professors based on their teaching performance, and let these professors scored each other. As is known to us all, the competition is quite stiff, even among teachers. Everyone wanted to be promoted, so they marked others very low. Consequently, none of them got a score meeting the standard. In a word, only the students evaluate the teaching performance can the result be more objective.
Admittedly, this kind of thing discussed above not always happens and not all the classes scored high by teachers are unsuitable for students. However, the evaluation made by students is much more objective, which can reflect more helpful information. To sum up, I reaffirm that it is more useful to evaluate a teacher’s teaching performance by students rather than other teachers.
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发表于 2013-11-14 13:53:17
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