IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE TEACHER ASSESSMENT/APPRAISAL IN TECHNICAL EDUCATION INSTITUTION: A Case Study

Presence of a teacher appraisal system plays a major role in deciding the level of
professionalism of an educational institution. In addition to this it also plays a major
role in improvement in quality of education imparted by the teacher. Recently
assessment of the teaching fraternity has become indispensable measure and thus it is
necessary to explore a new assessment techniques and proper implementation of the
same in an institution. The paper discusses a case study of implementation of teacher
appraisal system which initially non existed. In the first phase it was implemented
using printed data forms and subsequently in the whole system was converted to
online system, at NIT, Jamshedpur, India .The implementation of online system had
reduced the man-hours required in manual processing of all data significantly, and also
reduced chances of erroneous results in the process making the system robust.