Selecting the Strategies for Implementing Teacher Evaluation in Junior High Schools

• Main Authors: Yu-hsin Wang, 王鈺欣
• Other Authors: Dian-fu Chang
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/28039810729622993051

碩士 === 淡江大學 === 教育政策與領導研究所碩士在職專班 === 100 === This study aims to select better strategies for implementing teacher evaluation in junior high schools. Based on the fuzzy questionnaire, this study collected the data from teachers’ perceptions of importance and feasibility in related evaluation strategies. Following the idea of fuzzy statistics, this study transformed the interval data by way of fuzzy means, defuzzification and fuzzy distance. The findings of this study are as follows: 1. For the purposes of teacher evaluation, the possible strategies are "improving the quality of teaching", "solving the problems of unqualied teachers", "assisting teachers in their professional development", and"assessing teachers'' annual performance". 2. Following the principles of teacher evaluation, the possible strategies includ "the evaluation items are according to teachers'' teaching fields", "teachers participate in the decision making of evaluation", and"the evaluation items followed the stage of teachers'' professional development". 3. For methods of teacher evaluation, the possible strategies are "classroom teaching observation", " interview teachers"," using teacher self-evaluation", "using teaching portfolio", and “according to student achievement". (The inappropriate strategy is “teachers'' performance is evaluated by parents'' questionnaires”. 4. How to use the results of teacher evaluation? The possible strategies includ, "promote teachers'' professional development", and"as a way for re-appointing teachers in schools"; The inappropriate strategy is "using the result to make sure how much to pay teachers and their promotion".