Should students be allowed to grade the Teachers?
By lou_is
@lou_is (665)
India
May 25, 2011 1:18pm CST
I say yes for this because as Teachers have their own authority on the students then why not the students have authority to grade and choose the Teacher which quality of teacher they are looking for. If they get their own voted teacher then sure they will learn well and make sure that they will get through in all the exams with good marks. I wasn't had such kind of systems in my school or college days. But i wish this one should implement in the present school and college days. Is it good or bad friends?
12 responses
@koalapenguin (2707)
• Philippines
26 May 11
Here in the Philippines, we can evaluate our teachers at the end of every school year. We started to do it in high school until we go to college. Having an evaluation for teachers will make the school boost its quality education. For this reason, a lot of parents will highly regard the name of the school. Students will study with smiles on their faces making their learning experience fun and worthwhile.
@lou_is (665)
• India
26 May 11
Yes Jeanneyvonne, you are right, the evaluation is on the basis of teacher's performance. From that evaluation result the higher staff or principal or organisation team will decide whether that teacher has to giveup his/her work or he/she has to continue the profession.
@jeanneyvonne (5501)
• Philippines
26 May 11
Actually, the evaluation is sometimes the basis about a teacher's performance (based on the class) and if a particular teacher can be promoted, dismissed or maintain in a particular position. The quality of education is sometimes the least of priorities becuase the quality of education comes from the school admin. Sometimes, the quality of education doesn't parallel with the name of the school.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
25 May 11
YES. I am a freelance faculty for soft skills and aptitude in engineering colleges.
FOR: Students should be allowed to grade the teachers because then only teachers may take interest, study and teach properly.
2) Students will feel that they are also important, their views are taken into account.
AGAINST: In engineering colleges students are somewhat not interested in placement classes. So they may not grade the teachers properly.
Final year students - lose interest - or become audacious , get proudness and their rating is not always objective.
teachers who are lenient are given a better rating. for example if a faculty sings songs in the class and also encourage the students to sing -- that session is given 'excellent' rating.
Students are also biased -- they want young lady teachers, young men and not aged teachers. -- 30% of them rate subjectively. In one college a student wrote in the feed back "----- is beautiful. Unfortunately she is married..." "....old man need not come to our class again..."
Students have extra interests --- love, extra friendship etc. and there rating is subjective.
I am sure many more views will come and I will contribute my ideas.
@ravisivan (14079)
• India
26 May 11
I am able to follow what you say. We should not rely on student evaluation only but have some other sources to verify that. the deciding authority should not decide based on student rating only, but sit in the class observe and then decide.
@partha_malakar (222)
• New Delhi, India
26 May 11
Of course the students should have the right to grade the teacher. It not only will help the students and also the teacher. The Teacher will get to know his demerits.
@krajibg (11922)
• Guwahati, India
26 May 11
Hello lou,
Semester system is being introduced from this academic session in graduation level in out state. With so many new things students evaluation of the professor is one for the later to accumulate points to get promoted.
No longer are those days that students were subject to all abiding regardless if or not the teachers' input was up to the mark.
Now there is two way traffic. students have to be regular for internal assessment mark is in the hand of the professor and professor has to be regular as the grading power is in their hand.
This is good indeed.
@lou_is (665)
• India
27 May 11
I think this may be the new system that semester method. When i was in college days it was year wise and there was no grade system. Even students hate one lecturer but we can't do anything on that moment. Because if we say anything about that lecturer infront of the Principle then first they will ask about our quality and of course all fingers are not equal, some of in our class were not upto the mark and the rank holders are very few in numbers and if they meet the principle then he won't consider the request. This was happened in our college. Finally we forget informing about the lecturer because it was of no use.
@midnightbliss (541)
• Philippines
26 May 11
this can be advantage for both the students and teachers. students will be able to their teachers know what they think of them and teachers will also know their weaknesses for them to work on it to improve their teaching skills.
@bounce58 (17387)
• Canada
26 May 11
I've been out of university for more than 20 years, but I know that we had that system them. Before the end of the semester, we get surveys and we would rate the teaching style of our instructors. Granted that some of the questions then were generic, but I thought that over a number of students grading the same teacher, they would have gotten a fairly good idea how a teacher is after every semester.
@swanny686 (150)
• United States
26 May 11
In universities I would say know but in public high schools I would say this should be required. Some public high school teachers take advantage of their tenure and treat students like crap just because they know they won't get fired for it. I had a teacher in 9th grade that was tenured and simply told us to read the math textbook to learn the material and refused to answer any questions. It's guys like that that need to be eliminated by a process such as this
@larish (2191)
• Philippines
26 May 11
When I was still in school decades ago, we are require to evaluate our teachers on their performance. I am not sure on the effect on this to my professors because I never heard any teacher/professor being terminated or being ask because she/he failed the evaluation.
@stanley777 (9402)
• Philippines
26 May 11
I say yes too- some universities do that though, the students need to evaluate their teachers performances. It is really good to have this so that good teachers would be rewarded and not so good teachers would get more training.
@lou_is (665)
• India
26 May 11
Friend you will have a chance to give feed back too. Grade method in the sense, there will be few questions about the teacher and students have to mark on them and at the end there will an option like Comments or Feedback or something where students can give their feedback means they can write their feedback on that teacher.
@sashakiddo (1102)
• United States
26 May 11
Of course, students should be allowed to grade teachers. Teachers are not perfect and they need feedback about their effectiveness as professionals. Grading systems allow teachers to have more credibility because they are gaining new information about how they can improve.
@mslianne (79)
• Philippines
26 May 11
I say it's good. When I was a student, we were asked to anonymously evaluate our teachers, too. It's good in a way that the administration gets a view of what the students think of their teachers. However, it's bad too, since some students tend to get their subjective feelings interfere with their being objective. They rate the teachers they don't like as low. So sometimes, moderation is the key here. :)
@lou_is (665)
• India
26 May 11
Nice friend, at least you got the chance to evaluate your teacher but for me it wasn't like that. Whoever comes as teacher we need to listen them and we need to go back to our home. There were no such kind of things where we can say something about the teachers and we can evaluate.