Student Rating of Instructors’ Effectiveness in Teaching at Ramkhamhaeng University

Abstract

The study was aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching efficiency of Ramkhamhaeng University instructors in five areas : 1) preparing course outline and evaluation. 2) technique of teaching. 3) responsibility in teaching. 4) relationship between instructors and students and 5) content. Fifty-three courses were first randomly selected from courses offered in second semester of academie year 1982, and 3,171 students were randomly selected from those attened those 53 courses. The instrument used in this study was a questionaire concerning the effectiveness of instruction. There were 32 questionaire items. The reliability of this questionaire was 0.89. It was found that the teaching efficiency in all five areas of Ramkhamhaeng University instructors were at the good level. The analysis showed that there was significant difference in teaching efficiency among instructors in seven faculties but there was no significant difference in teaching efficiency between instructors who taught courses for freshmen and those who taught courses for sophomore or higher levels. Further analyses done to compare student rating of instructor effectiveness in teaching showed that first year students rated instructor effectiveness higher than those who enrolled more than four years. It was also found that students who expected to get G grade in the final examination rated instructor effectiveness in teaching higher than students who expected to get P grade of F grade.