The Degree of Correspondence between Student's and Departmental Head's Evaluation of the Faculty at Zanjan Medical Sciences University

One way to promote education quality is to evaluate faculty activities by students, departmental heads, and the dean. The degree of correspondence between student's and departmental head's evaluation shows how honest they are in their assessment. The current paper intends to find the truth. Questionnaires were used to conduct the study. It included 18 questions for the faculty, 16 for the students and 28 for the residents. The validity of the questionnaires was already established. Also, reliability of the tests was proved by retests. Opinions were rated on the liker scale. 106 (32 females and 74 males) faculty members, 25 departmental heads and qzl out of lloo students filled out the questionnaires. Spss software was used to analyze the data. In 61% of cases, correspondence was found between student's and departmental head's evaluation of the faculty. As departmental head's expectations differ from those of the students, lack of total correspondence is not unusual. However, in final analysis, 61% correspondence is optimal and acceptable. It seems that holding workshops, providing material and spiritual support, reducing work load, granting sabbatical leave, and reducing conflict of interest between departmental heads and the faculty can increase the degree of correspondence of evaluation. Also, using maximal adjustment correspondence technique can make the results more accurate.