UNIVERSITY TEACHERS’ PERFORMANCE EVALUATION: INVESTIGATING THE DEMOGRAPHIC IMPACTS ON THE EVALUATORS

Abstract

Students, Teachers (Colleagues), and Administrative-heads are commonly used as the ‘Evaluators’ of teachers’ performance in most of the higher education institutions. There is diversity of views about the validity and reliability of evaluations by these stakeholders. For example, researchers point to the fact that demographic attributes of the evaluators can change their rating behavior therefore these factors must be considered while evaluating the performance of University teachers. However, this study reveals that in the context of Gomal University, demographic attributes have nominal implications. This paper is a part of PhD project and presents the findings of the demographic impacts on the evaluation behavior of the evaluators.