فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

The aim of study was a comparative research of teacher performance evaluation in educational system of England, Iran, Japan and USA. In this qualitatively comparative study, the selection of countries was carried out through the strategy of "different social systems, different educational outputs". The data collection method was documentary using George Bereday and John Stuart Mill methods for data analysis. The findings reveal that the common goal among selected countries in evaluating teacher performance is to improve their level of performance with this difference that the performance evaluation process in the educational systems of England , Japan and USA is supportive & facilitative and in Iran mainly supervisory. The findings also revealed that teacher's professional attention to the students’ needs are among the important standards among four countries. Of course, in Iran, the standard of students' growth & excellence in recognizing religious issues is also important in evaluating teacher performance. Another finding indicated that the selected countries differed from each other in using performance evaluation methods such as teaching experience and certificates of evaluated training courses (England), observing teacher's work attitude (Japan), and informal observations & documented reports (USA); although all three countries are similar to Iran in terms of surveying educational staff. According to the findings, it is suggested that planners and evaluators of the Iran educational system should first change their purely supervisory perspective to performance evaluation and consider it as an instrument to support & improve teachers' performance. Also, by using the experiences of England, Japan and USA in various methods of evaluating teacher performance, they should prevent evaluators from exercising their personal preferences.