Online vs. Traditional Teaching Evaluation: A Cross-Sectional Study

摘要

Teaching evaluation contributed to the improvement of teaching quality and faculty's teaching skills. Faculty course evaluations have the potential to affect professional and career advancement. It is also important to medical education systems because is often used as the basis for evaluations of teaching effectiveness and improves the quality of manpower performance. This study's goal was to compare two methods of student evaluations of faculty, the traditional method versus online. This was a cross-sectional study. The study population was 658 students. The data gathering instrument was a questionnaire to evaluate the quality of faculty teaching gathered through paper-based approach or completed online. The findings showed that students preferred the online method for evaluating the quality of teaching (p<0.001) over the traditional method. Compared to traditional evaluation, online evaluation tends to have significantly greater advantages. The findings suggest that online evaluation of faculty may be a suitable alternative to the paper evaluation.