Strategies of Measuring Teaching Effectiveness in Higher Education Systems

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Top university managers are responsible for selecting and retaining qualified academic members and facilitating their career advancement opportunities. To fulfill this responsibility, the managers need to make important decisions. The value of measuring the effectiveness of teaching lies in the role it plays in providing evidence significant to making such decisive decisions about the future of the higher education system. Due to the complexity of measuring the effectiveness of teaching, universities should consider diverse strategies in order to be able to portray a comprehensive, reliable and correct picture of the academic members' performance. The criteria important to the higher education system of any country determine the factors to be measured in the process of evaluating teaching effectiveness and how this measuring should be done. This article explains a composite pattern of different strategies for evaluating teaching effectiveness, the type of tools employed, the evidence providers, the stakeholders and the type of decision making based on the evidence. These strategies can be used in decision making concerning the activities related to improving the teaching process and employment procedures of academic members

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