Should students be allowed to grade the Teachers?

Here in the Philippines, we can evaluate our teachers at the end of every school year. We started to do it in high school until we go to college. Having an evaluation for teachers will make the school boost its quality education. For this reason, a lot of parents will highly regard the name of the school. Students will study with smiles on their faces making their learning experience fun and worthwhile.

YES. I am a freelance faculty for soft skills and aptitude in engineering colleges. FOR: Students should be allowed to grade the teachers because then only teachers may take interest, study and teach properly. 2) Students will feel that they are also important, their views are taken into account. AGAINST: In engineering colleges students are somewhat not interested in placement classes. So they may not grade the teachers properly. Final year students - lose interest - or become audacious , get proudness and their rating is not always objective. teachers who are lenient are given a better rating. for example if a faculty sings songs in the class and also encourage the students to sing -- that session is given 'excellent' rating. Students are also biased -- they want young lady teachers, young men and not aged teachers. -- 30% of them rate subjectively. In one college a student wrote in the feed back "----- is beautiful. Unfortunately she is married..." "....old man need not come to our class again..." Students have extra interests --- love, extra friendship etc. and there rating is subjective. I am sure many more views will come and I will contribute my ideas.

Of course the students should have the right to grade the teacher. It not only will help the students and also the teacher. The Teacher will get to know his demerits.

Hello lou, Semester system is being introduced from this academic session in graduation level in out state. With so many new things students evaluation of the professor is one for the later to accumulate points to get promoted. No longer are those days that students were subject to all abiding regardless if or not the teachers' input was up to the mark. Now there is two way traffic. students have to be regular for internal assessment mark is in the hand of the professor and professor has to be regular as the grading power is in their hand. This is good indeed.

this can be advantage for both the students and teachers. students will be able to their teachers know what they think of them and teachers will also know their weaknesses for them to work on it to improve their teaching skills.

I've been out of university for more than 20 years, but I know that we had that system them. Before the end of the semester, we get surveys and we would rate the teaching style of our instructors. Granted that some of the questions then were generic, but I thought that over a number of students grading the same teacher, they would have gotten a fairly good idea how a teacher is after every semester.

In universities I would say know but in public high schools I would say this should be required. Some public high school teachers take advantage of their tenure and treat students like crap just because they know they won't get fired for it. I had a teacher in 9th grade that was tenured and simply told us to read the math textbook to learn the material and refused to answer any questions. It's guys like that that need to be eliminated by a process such as this

When I was still in school decades ago, we are require to evaluate our teachers on their performance. I am not sure on the effect on this to my professors because I never heard any teacher/professor being terminated or being ask because she/he failed the evaluation.

I say yes too- some universities do that though, the students need to evaluate their teachers performances. It is really good to have this so that good teachers would be rewarded and not so good teachers would get more training.

I think it should be more of a feedbak than a grade. The teachers can then use this feedback to improve their teaching skills and to modify or revoke their stragy when needed.

Of course, students should be allowed to grade teachers. Teachers are not perfect and they need feedback about their effectiveness as professionals. Grading systems allow teachers to have more credibility because they are gaining new information about how they can improve.

I say it's good. When I was a student, we were asked to anonymously evaluate our teachers, too. It's good in a way that the administration gets a view of what the students think of their teachers. However, it's bad too, since some students tend to get their subjective feelings interfere with their being objective. They rate the teachers they don't like as low. So sometimes, moderation is the key here. :)