What are the principles, criteria and methods for teaching evaluation?
Answer: 1) The principles of teaching evaluation include: ① Is the class helpful to the development of both students and teacher? ② Did we participate in the process of evaluation? ③ Was the evaluation limited to assessing the teaching outcomes? ④ Was the evaluation multi-dimensional with a variety of evaluators, evaluation methods, evaluation content and means of analysis? ⑤ Was it efficient based on a rate of return, which means calculating the ratio of teaching outcome to the time and effort invested per unit time? ⑥ Did the evaluation include evaluating the art of teaching?
2) The US criteria include: the organization of learning content, creation of learning environment, and development of teaching and teachers; the UK criteria include: learning atmosphere, classroom environment, resources, the teacher as planner, the teacher as deliverer or leader, the teacher as facilitator and guide and the role of students.
3) Methods of teaching evaluation include classroom observation, interviews with students and colleagues, questionnaires and teaching journals.