Teacher evaluation: the role of gender

Springer Science and Business Media LLC - Tập 49 - Trang 1779-1789 - 2014
Fatima Hameed1, Amjad Ali1, Amina Hameed1, Zohra Saleem1, Yasir Javed1
1Department of Management Sciences, COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad, Pakistan

Tóm tắt

Student evaluation is a common technique for faculty to receive feedback about their teaching. The study reveals whether there is any relation of students’ gender in evaluating teacher. The sample size is 250 students from four different universities of Pakistan. The data analysis is carried out by using descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation), independent sample t-test, regression analysis and reliability analysis (Cronbach alpha). The result of the study shows that teachers are evaluated equally by the male and female students. The analysis showed that there are some differences in teachers’ evaluation.

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