Designing a Model for Evaluating the Annual Professional Performance of the Primary School Teachers in the Country; a Qualitative Study

Abstract

The aim of this study was to provide a new model for measuring and evaluating the annual professional performance of primary school teachers. The research was conducted with a qualitative approach and content analysis method. For this purpose, review of specialized and research texts related to the qualifications and professional competencies of primary school teachers, evaluation of teachers' professional performance, upstream documents of the country's educational system (document of fundamental change in education and national curriculum document, etc.) and also a structured scientific interview with 20 experts, specialists and experts in primary education in the province and the country, as well as experienced and experienced professors of the Department of Educational Sciences, Farhangian University, and data saturation, which were selected by targeted sampling and snowballing. Data analysis was performed through open coding, axial coding and selective coding, and after reaching the main themes and extracting open, central and selective codes at the end of the new model, evaluation of professional performance of primary school teachers in two main content and process dimensions, 5 sections or floors, 36 categories and 95 sub-categories were provided.

Keywords

• performance
• evaluation
• teachers
• elementary