Rethink on the Students' Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges

This paper focuses on the Students' Evaluation of Teaching in Higher Vocational Colleges of China. The author presents three aspects of the problems, and puts forward some corresponding suggestions: Firstly, in China's Higher Vocational Colleges, Students' Evaluation of Teaching as a rule is pushed by the Ministry of Education in the first stage (before 2008) and Higher Colleges in the second stage(after 2008). On that situation, the teachers' participation in Students' Evaluation of Teaching is passive, they think the rule to them is "must" but not "need", which will be harmful to the teaching quality. The first task is taking measures to improve the teachers' participation. Secondly, the students have the rights to evaluate teaching in no doubt, but the students' ability to evaluate teaching is problematic. Some students may be abuse their rights in judging their teachers' teaching activities, which will cause the harm to the relationship between the teacher and student. How to enhance the students' abilities to evaluate the teachers' teaching activities is our second task. Thirdly, the means and methods of the Students' Evaluation of Teaching in China's Higher Vocational Colleges are imperfect, such as: lack of teachers' participation in evaluating indicators, short of process evaluation, the contents of evaluation is incomplete, etc. The third task is to mend and improve the means and methods of the Students' Evaluation of Teaching.