Student Attitudes towards Faculty Performance Assessment at the Jordanian Universities

Abstract

The purpose of the present study was to identify student's ability to evaluate performance of faculty members and their attitudes in evaluating faculty performance at the private and public universities in Jordan. Results revealed that:
• Student's ability to evaluate faculty performance was moderate (3.37).
• Personality traits of faculty were ranked top (M=4.13) by student attitudes in evaluation, whereas student-teacher interrelations was placed in the last rank (M=2.78) by student attitudes in evaluation.
• There were statistically significant differences (α=.05) attributed to effect of gender for all study variables and the overall rating of attitudes, where differences were in favor of males. However, there were no statistically significant differences regarding Laissez-faire style, personality characteristics, and social relations.
• There were statistically significant differences (α=.05) attributed to effect of gender on all study variables and the overall rating of attitudes, excluding openness/popularity, and tolerance/Laissez-faire where differences were in favor of public universities regarding personality qualities, and in favor of private universities on the other variables.