Depending on how you classify them, students can be regarded as “customers”. So, dreamguy’s 270 degree appraisal may be seen as a full 360.
360 degree appraisals gather “soft” measures. You might also want to use some hard measures, although when it comes to teaching, this can be very problematic. Using raw student scores at the end of the year won’t do as a hard measure because this can easily drive the wrong teaching behavior. Some teachers will just go soft and pass as many students as they can. Secondly, students come from widely varying backgrounds, so it’s not easy to compare one teacher’s teaching outcomes with another.
If you could sort the student cohort into different demographic groups and then look at the improvement in score for each group under the different teachers, this may be the way to go. Some/all of the student assessments will also need to be done externally so as to eliminate teacher bias.
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