Development of a Measure of Teacher Effectiveness for IIUM

Abstract

The paper reports the development of a multidimensional measure to assess teaching effectiveness. The scale, known as Teaching Feedback Survey for the International Islamic University Malaysia (TFS-IIUM), was developed and tested on a large sample of students and lecturers. By employing a principal components analysis with varimax rotation, an instrument consisting of 30 items was obtained, with four factorially independent dimensions of teaching effectiveness: Delivery of Information, Meaningful Interaction, Feedback and Fair Treatment, and Islamic Orientation. It documented high internal consistency reliability coefficients and a substantial amount of content, convergent-discriminant and criterion-related validity coefficients.