[Students' evaluation methods by academic staff in Shahrekord university of medical sciences]

ABSTRACT

Effective evaluation is one the most important basic issues of educational processes and not only to diverse the students, but also help the instructor in his activities. Purpose: The aim of this study was to detect the methods of evaluation by instructors in Shahrekord university of medical sciences. In this descriptive study, 122 instructor answered to a questionnaire. The validity of questionnaire was detected by the experts, viewpoints and its relibility was determined by alph chronbakh [0.79].Data was analyzed by spss and p<0.05 was concidered significant. 69.4% of instructors used final and continuous evaluation and 16.2% used only final evaluation .Explanatory and multi-choice questions were the most common questions in examinations .88.3% Of instructors believed that the final examination is the most important criteria in their evaluation and 38.2% used mid-term examination. final and continuous evaluation were the most methods in evaluation.Most of questions were explanatory and multiple-choice and were selected before examination and not during the designing of course plan. mid-term examination and selection of questions during the designing of course plan writing is suggested