A Technique for Measuring Effective Teaching of Professional Courses.

Autor/in	Bastick, Tony
Titel	A Technique for Measuring Effective Teaching of Professional Courses.
Quelle	(1999), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Ability; College Faculty; College Students; Competence; Evaluation Methods; Foreign Countries; Higher Education; Professional Development; Self Evaluation (Individuals); Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Teacher Attitudes; Jamaica + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fähigkeit; Fertigkeit; Fakultät; Collegestudent; Kompetenz; Ausland; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Lehrerverhalten
Abstract	This paper presents the results of research into a technique for the measurement of effective teaching that avoids the problems inherent in student evaluations of teacher effectiveness. The method takes as little as 5 minutes to administer and so can be used in-course by the teacher to track his or her teaching effectiveness. It results in a single number that can be used at the end of a course as an administrative decision point measure. The initial research with 3 classes of teacher training students (n=12, n=12, and n=23) was done in an Australian university and is now being replicated in other universities. The measure operationally defines the three basic abilities of the Three Ability Framework (3AF): technical skills, professional competence, and professional attitudes. The 3AF method assesses the degree of alignment between the changes the students expect in these three abilities and the changes toward which the teacher is working. Correlations between the scores of academic attainment, degree of teacher/student alignment, and course satisfaction indicated that when the students and their teacher were working towards the same proportion and amount of these three abilities, the students had higher academic attainment and greater course satisfaction. The four steps of the application of the method are outlined. (Contains 1 table and 28 references.) (SLD)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC