Comprison of the Assessment of Professors by Students Based on Two Different Protocols; Asadabad Medical Sciences Faculty, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences Print

The process of evaluating the professors by the students, as a common method of evaluating, has many strengths and weaknesses in performance. Thus, the aim of this study was to investigate the stability of the evaluation of the professors by students using two different protocols.Instrument & In this interventional study in Asadabad Medical Sciences School in 2013-2014, 174 students assessed 26 professors in 53 courses at two semesters using two different methods; paper-based at one week before the end of semester (protocol A) and computer-based on the currently methods (protocol B) after the final exam. The questionnaire was the pre-defined tool in Hamadan University of Medical Sciences. Data analysis was performed using SPSS 20 and Excel 2013 software with paired T, independent T and Pearson correlation coefficient tests. The mean score of assessments in protocol A (68.99±17.73) was significantly less than the mean score of assessments in protocol B (91.78±5.40; p<0.001). In all questions, the correlation between scores in two different executive protocol was statistically significant (p<0.001). There was no significant difference between the mean scores given by students according to different courses in two different protocols (p>0.05). Paper-based assessment of professors by students one week before the end of semester is better than the computer-based method and it can discriminate the professors better.