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Online Teacher Evaluation by Students – Upgrading or Downgrading of the Process? Case study: West University of Timișoara
Online Teacher Evaluation by Students – Upgrading or Downgrading of the Process? Case study: West University of Timișoara

Author(s): Bogdan Nadolu, Delia Ioana Nadolu
Subject(s): Education, Sociology
Published by: Universitatea Babeş-Bolyai
Keywords: students’ feedback; online; evaluation;

Summary/Abstract: In this article we analyse the main consequences of replacing the pen-and-paper questionnaires used for teacher evaluation by students with an online version, at West University of Timișoara. The students’ feedback is a legislative requirement, is carried out every semester starting from 2007 and, as of 2016, in our university, was transferred to an online platform. We are going to make a sociological analysis of this transformation, following two variables: the number of evaluator students and the level of the marks. Even though the online evaluation is more accessible for students, the general trend is a decrease in their involvement, with direct consequences on the validity of the feedback. Is it only a lack of interest of the digital-born students? Are other socio-cultural dimensions of the academic culture involved? What can be done to exceed the critical level of 30% participation? These are just a few questions that we will try to answer in our paper, with a rather more descriptive approach than a theoretical or conceptual one.

  • Issue Year: 2/2018
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 31-40
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: English
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