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Evaluation of Teaching

One of the primary functions of a learning organization such as Monash is teaching. Academic staff must be able to collect data to evaluate the way they teach but with little threat to their students that such information could be used against them. Teaching evaluations serve several purposes such as providing

  • Feedback on the perceptions of students in their class
  • Feedback to lecturers so they can improve their teaching
  • Feedback to the faculty and university so they can judge the teaching performance of the instructional staff
  • Information to students about what other students thought of the lectures 

There are three major ways of evaluating teaching