Designing and Validating Faculty Member's Performance Evaluation Forms

The present study aimed at designing and validating the faculty members’ performance evaluation forms as well as performance evaluation forms in the educational departments. This descriptive survey research included a statistical population of all faculty members and students of Islamic Azad University, Sanandaj Branch (312 and 10500 individuals, respectively). Given the Cochran’s Formula, it was calculated that the statistical sample under study should be 386 individuals; however, it was decided to increase the sample size up to 400 individuals (334 students and 66 faculty members) in order to increase accuracy and decrease sampling errors. Furthermore, researcher-made questionnaires were used for collecting the required data. The findings showed that the most significant weaknesses of the current evaluation forms were as follows: failure to distinguish between the evaluation forms in clinical, general and special theoretical courses, students’ hasty and irresponsible completion of the evaluation forms, disregard for the faculty members’ specialty as far as the selection of courses to be evaluated was concerned, ambiguity of the weight of the evaluation criteria used by students, professors, Heads of Educational Groups and Deputy for Educational Affairs and failure to give feedback of the evaluation results. Having combined the viewpoints of students and professors, the evaluation criteria for the theoretical, practical and clinical courses were suggested. Besides, the criteria for evaluating the performance of the educational groups were suggested thereof. Based on the findings, it was suggested that in the process of evaluating the faculty members’ performance, the viewpoints of top students, faculty members themselves, Heads of Educational Groups and other colleagues should be taken into consideration, respectively.