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). 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.