EFFECTIVENESS OF STUDENTS’ EVALUATION OF TEACHERS’ QUESTIONNAIRE: CASE STUDY OF DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, UNIVERSITY OF MAIDUGURI, NIGERIA

Rhoda Emmanuel Camble; Abubakar Hamman-Tukur & Aisha Bukar

Abstract

Teacher evaluation is a formal and systematic process of examining teacher performance and effective teachers are expected to demonstrate competence in subject matter as well as perform high levels of teaching skills. In the modern era, there has been a tremendous increase in interest regarding students’ ratings of instruction and this topic has been the subject of a substantial body of research spanning approximately 70 years. The main objective of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of questionnaire on students’ feedback on course learning experience. What is the reliability of questionnaire on students’ feedback on course learning experience? There is no significant inter correlation of the items in questionnaire on students’ feedback on course learning experience? The Reliability Test using Cronbach’s Alpha revealed high internal consistency for the sections in questionnaire on students’ feedback on course learning experience, the reliability index of 0.839. The 32 items of questionnaire on students’ feedback on course learning experience were found valid for assessing teachers on teaching skills. The inter-rater reliability analysis of questionnaire on students’ feedback on course learning experience using Cronbach’s Alpha coefficient indicates that questionnaire on students’ feedback on course learning experience has inter-rater reliability index of was reported to be 0.643 indicating that there is agreement among the raters. The results revealed minimum KMO value of .564 and a maximum value of .845. It was then recommended that faculties in tertiary institutions should involve students in evaluating and assessing their teachers during appraisal of teaching