title: Designing and evaluation of the teaching quality assessment form from the point of view of the Lorestan University of Medical Sciences students - 2010.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Education is basically one of the Universities' and faculties' leading missions and duties; its promoted quality will also lead to an elevated educational quality in the University. Teacher assessment can be mentioned as essential for the success of the quality promotion process. This article deals with the designing and evaluation of a teaching quality evaluation form for teachers, from the Lorestan University of Medical Science students' point of view.
  
  
  METHODS
  A two-stage, cross-sectional study was conducted on 290 Lorestan University of Medical Science students. First, evaluation priorities were extracted using the Delphi technique in the fifth section, including teaching skills, communication skills, principles of training, and skills assessment. In the second stage, as the priority and importance of each item was evaluated in the fourth Lickert option, sampling was done in few stages. The study instrument was a questionnaire, which included six areas. The first part of the questionnaire was made up of the demographic characteristics and the second part included five evaluation areas that were obtained from the student. The collected data were analyzed using statistical software SPSS-16 and chi-square test, Kruskal-Wallis test.
  
  
  RESULTS
  In the areas of teaching skills, mastery of the course, individual characteristics, self-confidence, communication skills, intimate relationship with students, educational principles, rules respecting the beginning and end time of class, skill assessment, and an accurate comprehensive examination at the end of the semester by the students, were chosen as the most important factors. There were significant differences in the majority of expressed comments between the genders and academic status (P < 0.05).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Students can properly diagnose the essential factors in teachers' evaluation, but in item prioritizing they may be partly affected by some factors such as gender, academic status, semester, and academic course.
authors.affiliation: Department of Public Health, School of Health, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran.
authors.forename: Aziz
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kamran
authors.forename: Mohammed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Zibaei
authors.forename: Kamal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Mirkaimi
authors.forename: Hussein
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Shahnazi
keywords: Delphi technique; evaluation; student; teacher
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