Model Research on Teaching Evaluation for University Teachers Based on Developmental Evaluation

Abstract

Developmental teaching evaluation is a process of constructive interaction, it focuses not only on the current performance of teachers, but more importantly, on the growth and development of teachers. The advantages of developmental teaching evaluation lie in promoting the professional development, advocating individual teaching characteristics, emphasizing on encouraging teachers to initiatively fulfill the needs of modern education through reflections. Through the research on the status of university teaching evaluation, this paper reveals the main problems of current system on the perspective of developmental teaching evaluation, which involve: subject simplification, non-scientific indexes and unreasonable use of the results. This paper also interprets four main features of developmental teaching evaluation in detail; proposes that teaching evaluation in universities should foster the concept of development, should establish a scientific and rational evaluation system, and should improve the feedback and tracking process and form the model of analysis, evaluation and feedback.