A Study of the Domains on Faculty Evaluation Forms from Student's Point of View at Zanjan Medical Sciences University

Faculty evaluation by students is the most common method of educational quality assessment. Through such evaluation, faculty strengths and weaknesses can be revealed. In the current study, the domains on the evaluation forms used in faculty of Medicine, Paramedical and Nursing faculties are studied through student's eyes. In this descriptive study, 1683 faculty evaluation forms (73 people) were considered. They included 15 items for students of medicine, 21 items for paramedical and nursing students. The Liker scale was used to find out student's attitude towards education, rules and discipline at the university. The maximum score was 100. Data was analyzed by SPSS software. Results showed that on average paramedical faculty performed better than other faculties (M=85.5O; SD= ± 3.61). Regarding rules observance, Paramedical faculty had a mean of 91.01 (SD= ± 3.89); 0n the attitude domain Medical faculty had a mean of 90.48(SD= ± 5.45); and Nursing faculty had the highest mean of rules observance domain (M=88.34; SD= ± 4.25). Education domain showed lowest level in all faculties. The produced mean results were significant (P=0.001). It seems that holding workshops, improving teaching methods, granting sabbatical leave, and encouraging research work com promote educational level in different faculties and improve faculty activity