Concordance of teacher's evaluation by students and alumni of medical sciences

S tudying the validity of student evaluations can be effective in accepting the results of such evaluations by professors and administrators. The aim of this study was to investigate the concordance of professors'' evaluation by medical students and graduates. In this descriptive cross sectional study the evaluation scores of 23 faculty members teaching in Ahvaz Jondishapour University of Medical Sciences in 2010، were evaluated. The data collection tool was a questionnaire of student evaluation of university teachers containing 15 questions with 5-option Likert scale. Fifteen sixth-academic-year students (intern) who were on the verge of graduation with no relationship with basic sciences professors، completed the evaluation questionnaire as graduates. Data were analyzed using SPSS 18 software and paired T tests and Pearson correlation coefficient. The total mean score of professors'' evaluation score by students and graduates، had no significant difference (p= 0. 45) and the correlation between them was positive and significant. Correlation coefficient between the evaluation scores of male and female professors by students and graduates were respectively r=0. 581 and r=0. 611 which was statistically significant (p=0. 016). There is a high correlation between the evaluation scores of professors by students and graduates indicates the consistency of the evaluation scores of professors and the validity of the student evaluations.