STUDENTS' EVALUATION OF GEOGRAPHY-LECTURERS' PERFORMANCE AT UNIVERSITY OF GARMIAN IN ACADEMIC YEAR 2016-2017
Keywords:
evaluation, questionnaire, Iraqi-Kurdistan Region, geography departmentAbstract
Evaluation forms are a basis for boosting educational quality. Consequently, it can be defined as an analysis and control process designed to determine the relevance, affectivity, significance, impact of specific activities, and the resultant effectiveness.
This study was a descriptive study aimed to evaluate the performance of lecturers in geography department at University of Garmian, based on students' view point. To this end, a standard appraisal questionnaire designed by Ministry of Science and Research of Iraq was used. This questionnaire is administered to college students at all Iraqi-Kurdistan universities to assess the lecturers. It is comprised of eight questions. Students use a five point Likert Scale to score lecturers performance. Sample included the whole students in geography department. After omitting the unfilled and defective questionnaires, 163 subjects participated in the study.
Findings indicated that question no. 6 got the highest score (allocating time to answer the questions raised by students), and question no. 3 obtained the lowest score (timely onset and finish of each session). The overall scores rated the geography lecturers as "good" based on standards defined by the Ministry of Science and Research in Iraq.
Although, all investigated aspects were rated as good, the educational staffs are young in this department. Consequently, enforcing the positive dimensions and correcting the negatives aspects can improve the educational quality.
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