Factors Affecting Students Perception towards Faculty Evaluation of Teaching at Nowshera Medical College, Pakistan

Abstract

Objective: To find out factors which are affecting student’s perception towards teaching faculty evaluation. Study Design: Quantitative Cross-sectional Research. Setting: Nowshera Medical College, Nowshera. Period: March 2020. Material & Methods: A pre-validated questionnaire of Student’s evaluation of teaching instrument comprising 21 items, were administered. A total number of 208 students from different classes were agreed for participation. All participants were given equal preference. Data was entered in Excel sheet and analyzed through SPSS version 24. Results: It is evident that majority of students’ i.e.51.27 % had a positive perception towards the factors related to teachers in the student’s evaluation of teaching Tool. Similarly, it has been depicted that majority of students i.e. 79.46 % have shown highly positive significance towards the factors related to them in the instrument where as 40.6 % has a positive perception towards the factors related to coursework. Conclusion: It was concluded that the faculty age, sex, qualification and medium of teaching are the major features which affect their evaluation by the students. Similarly, class size and students’ grades were found to be major factors related to course and students in the tool. Thus, we conclude that overall perception of students towards Students evaluation of teaching was positive and highly significant.