2015
DOI: 10.3138/jvme.0914-096r1
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Challenges and Issues in the Evaluation of Teaching Quality: How Does it Affect Teachers' Professional Practice? A UK Perspective

Abstract: Evaluation of the quality of higher education is undertaken for the purposes of ensuring accountability, accreditation and improvement, all of which are highly relevant to veterinary teaching institutions in the current economic climate. If evaluation is to drive change, it needs to be able to influence teaching practice. This article reviews the literature relating to evaluation of teaching quality in higher education with a particular focus on teachers' professional practice. Student evaluation and peer obse… Show more

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“…Teachers should adopt diverse teaching methods and tools based on actual situations of teaching goals, teaching content, and students, and try their best to trigger students' learning enthusiasm and cultivate their various abilities and qualities. When evaluating the teaching methods, there is a saying: there're fixed rules in teaching, but the teaching methods shouldn't be fixed, therefore, the evaluation indexes related to teaching method should contain the following content: whether the teaching method is diverse and flexible; and whether the teaching method can meet the actual requirements of students and teaching [15]. 3.…”
Section: Teaching Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Teachers should adopt diverse teaching methods and tools based on actual situations of teaching goals, teaching content, and students, and try their best to trigger students' learning enthusiasm and cultivate their various abilities and qualities. When evaluating the teaching methods, there is a saying: there're fixed rules in teaching, but the teaching methods shouldn't be fixed, therefore, the evaluation indexes related to teaching method should contain the following content: whether the teaching method is diverse and flexible; and whether the teaching method can meet the actual requirements of students and teaching [15]. 3.…”
Section: Teaching Methodsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The National Accreditation Board [11] recommends that academic staff must be evaluated especially by students as they are the primary beneficiary of these staff. This is important because students offer the learning challenges from their perspective and this enhances the evaluation of quality [27]. Responses from students regarding staff evaluation revealed that Wa NTC evaluates health tutors once every semester as indicate by NAB.…”
Section: A Quality Assurance Committee/unitmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Effect of evaluations analyzes the impact or effect of evaluations on various aspects; for example, on the improvement of the teaching practice [55,61] or the teachers' reflection [34]. There were also works that analyzed evaluations carried out by superiors and the participations of the teachers on the evaluation process.…”
Section: Emergent Linesmentioning
confidence: 99%