Education Evaluation, Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada.
Surgeon. 2011;9 Suppl 1:S43-4. doi: 10.1016/j.surge.2010.11.016. Epub 2011 Feb 18.
The traditional system of academic promotion and tenure can make it difficult to reward those who excel at surgical teaching. A successful faculty evaluation process can provide the objective measures of teaching performance needed for performance appraisals and promotion decisions. Over the course of two decades, an extensive faculty evaluation process has been developed in the Department of Surgery at the University of Toronto. This paper presents some of the non-psychometric characteristics of that system. Faculty awareness of the evaluation process, the consistency of its application, trainee anonymity and the materiality of the results are described key factors of a faculty evaluation system that meets the assessment needs of individual teachers and raises the profile of teaching in surgical departments.
传统的学术晋升和终身教职制度可能难以奖励那些擅长外科教学的人。一个成功的教师评估过程可以为绩效评估和晋升决策提供教学表现的客观衡量标准。在过去的二十年中，多伦多大学外科系已经开发出了广泛的教师评估过程。本文介绍了该系统的一些非心理计量学特征。教师对评估过程的认识、其应用的一致性、学员匿名性和结果的重要性是满足个别教师评估需求并提高外科部门教学水平的教师评估系统的关键因素。
