[Attitude of students of Lorestan medical science university towards priorities in teachers assessment 2008]

ABSTRACT

One of the important aspects of education is evaluation, which is influenced by various factor. Evaluating of academic members on students assessment is a kind of educational evaluation, which includes determining their rate of success in their own educational goals. Using students' views for teacher assessment is a common method. However, research results indicate that students' ideas about their teachers is influenced by some factors which have no close relationship to the evaluation subject and is merely related to the instructors specification. To determine the attitude of students different fields in medical sciences university toward priorities in teachers assessment Lorestan. This study was descriptive-analytical performed on all vary courses' students in university of medical sciences Lorestan during 2007-08. data were colleted using the questionnaire consisting of 7 parts and 43 questions was used to gather data. That was completed by students Then. Data were analyzed with Softwear SPSS v.l 1.5. Results indicated that the majority of students [80.4%] selected [mastery of contents] as the most important priority in teachers assessment. Most of them [81.2%] selected [self-confidence] for personal characteristics, 70.8% selected "establishing an intimate relationship with students' for communication skills, 47.6% selected [on time starting and finishing the class] in respect to educational principles and 49.9% selected [performing an exact and comprehensive exam at the end of the term] for evaluation skills. Also 27.7% of the samples believed that there is a high conformity between the present evaluations and reality and 18.5% believed there is no conformity between them. Although students distinguish some very important factors for teachers assessment, the necessary factors for a good teacher based on the scientific criteria aren't selected as the most important by the students and this may decrease the validity and reliability of students ratings