Teaching evaluation in a basic biology course for engineering major students

Abstract

The self-evaluation of their understanding by students does not match their final grade (teacher evaluation) well. In the present paper, the author investigated the relationship between the self-evaluation of engineering major students who had almost no experience of biology education in high school, and their examination results over the three years of a biology course. No significant correlation was found between the scores, suggesting that student self-evaluation was unreliable. On the other hand, both the evaluation of the teacher by the students and their examination results increased year by year. This suggests that the capability of the teacher is an important factor in boosting self-confidence and understanding of the subject.