Correlates of Teaching Effectiveness of the General Education Faculty in a State University of the Philippines

Abstract

Universally recognized and accepted as a direct and promising strategy to improve education outcomes is improving the teacher quality and measuring teaching effectiveness. This study investigated variables that influence the students’ evaluation of the teaching effectiveness of the general education (GE) faculty of a state university in the Philippines for the Second Semester, School Year 2014-2015. It looked into factors pertaining to the professional profile of the GEfaculty members that affect the students’ evaluation of the faculty teaching with the use of correlational research design. Findings revealed that of the variables considered, length of service in the teaching profession has a significant inverserelationship with the students’ evaluation of the faculty members’ teaching effectiveness particularly regarding their commitment. The findings suggest that e GE faculty should continue to live up to the precept that teaching is a vocation. ger. The faculty members whether in the early years of teaching or the experienced faculty must be likewise provided with faculty development programs. The university should consider a shift to online student evaluation of faculty teaching effectiveness.