The Use of and the Opinion Towards Teaching Evaluation of Instructors in the State Support Institution of Higher Education under the Ministry of University Affairs.

Abstract

The purposes of this research were (1) to investigate the evaluation of teaching effectiveness in the government higher educational institutional under the Ministry of University Affairs, (2) to study the instructors’ attitude toward the evaluation of teaching effectiveness, (3) to study the opinions of the instructors on the process of the evaluation of reaching effectiveness. The sample under study was the 1,062 instructors which were selected by multistage sampling from the government higher education institutions under the Ministry of University Affairs in 1985 which were located all over the country (not including Sikhothai University and Mahidol University). The instrument used for collecting the data was questionnaire, The data was then analyzed through SPSS (Statistical Packages for Social Sciences) for percentage, Chi-square, one way analysis of variance, and post-hoc comparison by using the Least Significant Difference method. The major findings were summarized as follows; (1) about 70 per cent of the instructors in government higher educational institutions used to evaluate their teaching effectiveness to improve their teaching style, (2) the instructors in the government higher educational institutions had positive attitudes toward the evaluation of teaching effectiveness, (3) most instructors agreed that they should have been evaluated all the time, there should be a person or a group of people responsible for the evaluation of teaching effectiveness in a department, college and university level. The Ministry of University Affairs should set this kind of policy in order to encourage the instructors to evaluate their teaching effectiveness to improve their teaching process. The evaluators should be students and the instructors themselves. The evaluation should include subject matter teaching methods, teaching materials, work assignment, measurement and evaluation. The subject matter should not be evaluated by students, but by the instructors or other instructors in the same field.