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Unit 26: Evaluation Mechanism in Teacher Education

(v) The role of school leaders in teacher evaluation depends to a great extent on the concept Notes
and practices of school leadership are established in school.

26.4 Teacher Evaluation Mechanisms
Establishing effective teacher evaluation procedures is challenging at several levels: accuracy of
the measurement, inclusion of all the dimensions of what is meant to be measured, consistency
with the goals of the feedback exercise, adaptation to the needs of those who will use the results
(teachers, school leaders, educational authorities), cost-effectiveness, and practical feasibility.
Teacher evaluation requires the establishment of reference standards and evaluation criteria to
allow proper assessments of performance to be made. In particular, a definition of what „good.
teaching is needs to be developed. Performance measurement also calls for a judicious choice of
instruments and sources of information. For instance, using student results to evaluate individual
teachers is particularly challenging since learning outcomes are the result of a multitude of
factors including the students. socio-economic background.
26.4.1 Teacher Evaluation by his students
The opening sentence of Kothari Commission (1964-66) is that "The destiny of India is being
shaped in her classroom."
This statement is the basis of our education system. The responsibility and accountability of
classroom is of our teachers. A teacher plan and organizes the classroom to generate conducive
learning situations, so that students gain experiences and perform some activities which bring
change in the learner's behavior. In this way terminality development takes place of the learners.
The students are promising citizen of our country. Some leadership characteristics are developed
so that the students can provide leadership in different fields of social life. The education is
always given for future. The teacher plays significant role in the development of child. There are
several educational technologies but no technology can replace the teacher. It assists the teacher
to work efficiently. Therefore, it is essential to know about teacher as much as we can.
Several research studies have been conducted on teacher effectiveness and teaching effectiveness
in India and other countries but there is no consiste4ncy in the findings. There may be several
reasons. Teaching is a social activity which begins from nursery to university level. There is a
great variation in the teaching subjects. Every nation has own needs and requirements as well as
social philosophy. Nation has own system of administration.
These may be reasons that findings on teacher-effectiveness have no stability and consistency.
The measuring instruments of this area are not objective and valid. The criteria of effectiveness
are not adequate, generally three criteria-presage, process and product are used for this purpose.
The student's achievement and attitudes are considered as product criteria. The student's
achievement has been frequently used as one of the product criterion. This may not be a valid
criterion because student's achievement is not attributable to classroom teaching only. There are
several factors which are responsible for student's achievement. The classroom observation can
be not be analyzed in normal situation or actual environment.
Development of 'Teacher Evaluation by his Students': In this context, there is very old phrase-
The students are the best critic of their teacher." The students are active participants in teaching
activities and they observes his teacher activities for months together. Therefore, teachers all
aspects of his personality are assessed by his students. Teacher evaluation by his students is
continuous process. It is not a formal process of evaluation of teachers. The student's perception
is also changed about his teacher. Therefore, teacher evaluation by his students is meaningful and
valid process. An effective teacher is remembered by his students through of their life. The
teacher has a significant interaction in their personality development.
Several Commissions and Committees of education have been formed for last four decades and
they have recommended about teachers evaluation. Sen Committee of education was formed in
1977. It has recommended for teacher's profession, professional ethics and teacher's accountability
of classroom teaching. The new pay scale and promotion scheme for teachers have been applied.

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