Faculty members' attitudes towards students' evaluation of university teaching practices

Abstract

The teaching staff in universities is the cornerstone of scientific and academic activity, and it is considered the most vital and important element. Academic performance evaluation occupies an important and prominent place in higher education institutions in different countries of the world.
In the United States of America and other countries that use students' evaluation of teachers as a key factor in decisions taken regarding the retention or promotion of teachers, it has become greatly affecting the legitimacy and legality of teaching performance evaluation in universities and higher institutes. As is known and followed, the performance of the employee is evaluated by the direct supervisor who heads him to evaluate his growth and productivity directly. Here, the importance of the opinions of people other than those direct supervisors in the evaluation process emerges, who are the students taught by the teacher, evaluate their work, and give them grades.