Promotion of Teachers Will Be On The Basis of Students Feedback

AICTE has decided to include the feedback of students as the topmost parameter which contributes to as many as 25 marks for the assessment of teachers. The score will be applicable for promotion purposes. The move is focused to raise teaching quality in engineering colleges.

 

In what it claims to be a move for increasing the quality of teaching in the engineering colleges, the All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has introduced a 360-degree feedback scoring system for assessing teacher. This score will be taken into consideration while promoting teacher. In the first of its-kind-move, the teachers under the new system will be assessed by students.

 

The feedback of students and teaching process both hold an equal and maximum weight of 25 marks. There are other parameters also which include departmental activities, institute activities, ACR and contribution to society. This new assessment system has been notified since March 2019. It is expected to be used in the upcoming promotion cycle.

 

Rajive Kumar said that this is the first time which the feedback of students will be considered in assessing teachers with respect to promotion activities. Since in education scenario the students are immediate and primary stakeholders, their take holds importance and the new system provides them the due emphasis.

 

The AICTE-affiliated colleges will get the notification and over 10,500 institutes are expected to implement the same, according to Kumar. He further added that the process of the feedback of students and its calculation is evolving and a committee is working on the same. The final draft of the procedure will soon be circulated.

 

According to the AICTE’s official notification, candidates will be asked for submitting the average score for each course taught during academic year under consideration on a scale of 25. The total average of all such score shall be used. President, Indian Association of Teacher Educators (IATE) and a professor of Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, Ramesh Ghanta, said that the idea of students assessing teachers looks good on paper and has been applicable in the West but might not be very fruitful in India.

 

By: Preeti Narula

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