The Role of Different Informational Sources in Educational Evaluation of Faculty Members

One of the most important issues that universities confront is using the suitable methods for educational evaluation of faculty members. Using the evaluation system is an obvious need for assessing faculty members performance, but establishing such system cannot be easily done in practice. Several methods and approaches exist for educational evaluation of faculty members. Most researches show some common informational sources for educational evaluation like: students, peer, administrators and self evaluations. Based on the review of literature, there are eight components which are common in teaching – learning process and four informational sources on each of teaching – learning components. This research is designed to find out faculty members opinion to share of informational sources in educational evaluation of faculty members. By stratified random sampling method, 180 samples were selected from Shahid Beheshti university faculty members. In this paper, based on research. Results the following question was answered: How much do the faculty members agree with different sources of evaluation? Based on the research results, the faculty members strongly agree with eight identified components of teaching – learning process like content expertise – course design-Instructional delivery skills – course management – advising and guiding – relationship skills – evaluation of learning – ethics in teaching. Among four informational sources, the students have more weighted average.