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Abstract

Student evaluation of the quality of instruction is considered as one of the most widely used methods for assessing faculty in universities. This study aimed to identify and compare faculty and students' views about the evaluation system of the quality of faculty teaching in 2011-2012 in Ilam University of Medical Sciences. In this descriptive – analytical study, statistical population was included faculty members (n = 92) and students (n=1,100) that their viewpoint in three fields: competence of students for evaluation, assessment tools quality and factors affecting the results of the evaluation using two designed questionnaires and descriptive and inferential statistics analyzing data, were studied. Scores of participants' viewpoint was as follows: Students  capacity to do faculty proficiency evaluation (3.62±0.91), evaluation of teaching methods(1.01±3.72) evaluation and scoring methods(3.41± 1.01) and their suitability for evaluation of designing of the course content (3.16± 0.99), the number of questionnaire questions (3.25 ± 0.9) Matching evaluations  tools to evaluation goal or validity (3 ± 0.96) how to design questions (3.20± 0.96) and the rate of bias in the questionnaire (3.16± 1.02), In addition, the effect of factors on student evaluations was as follow: factors related to the student (3.62± 1.06), factors related to the course and class (3.29 ± 1.06), factors related to the instructor (3.64 ± 1.01), and factors related to the evaluation system (3.18± 1.11). Compare the viewpoints of faculty and students also showed significant differences in two groups' viewpoints (p <% 5).Despite the current evaluation system is partially confirmed by the study subjects but due to the influence of the results of variety of factors, significant objections have been raised, particularly from faculty, when it is used as the only source, so that in order to reduce weaknesses and strengthen the evaluation system, the review of evaluation form and methods of designing in line with increasing the validity and reliability should be done.