Developing Effective Teaching Indicators in Universities and Higher Education Institutions and its Accomplishment in Isfahan University

The purose of this article is to develop effective teaching indicators in universities and higher education institutions and degree of its accomplishment in Isfahan University. The paper determines effective teaching indicators in five domain, designing and developing the courses, teaching, classroom management, human relations and evaluating student's academic performance. Because of the broadness of the subject, in this paper only lesson presentation domain has been discussed. In this study both qualitative and quautitative method were used. In the qualitative part, the teaching performance of Isfahan University faculties was evaluated. A stratified sampling method was used to select faculties. In order to evaluate the performance of the selected faculties in the quantitative part, 1245 third and forth grade undergraduate students took part in the research. Finding of research indicated that exemplar faculties emphasized on: importance of beginning and ending of the lesson; question oriented teaching and student participation; and considerations of teaching in university. The mean that was measured in the quantitative section was 3.60 and it was more than the mean of effectiveness criterion (3.5). In this research the observed differences among the performance of the faculty members in regard to their faculties and degree were not significant, except in regard to record service, that the faculty members with 1-10 year service had better performance than those with 11-20 years.