Assessment of teaching ability among university level health science teachers: Pilot study

Naresh Bhaskar, Raj and U. Ganapathy, Sankar and Monisha, R. (2020) Assessment of teaching ability among university level health science teachers: Pilot study. Indian Journal of Public Health Research and Development, 11 (02). pp. 757-759. ISSN 0976-0245

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Abstract

Background: University level teachers were at stress and depression as because of their higher working hours with undergraduate, postgraduate and doctoral students. Which make the teachers to sit for hours and hours in class and stand with blackboard in-order to cover the syllabus hours and to encourage the students to be successful in career? Till now there are no studies done on assessing the cognition and teaching ability of a teacher in relation to the comorbidies they experience as a teaching staff. Objective: To find out the cognition using ruff figural fluency test. Procedure: The subjects according to inclusion and exclusion criteria and who were willing to participate in the study will be given a questionnaire of faculty workload survey 2001. Nordic questionnaire to evaluate the musculoskeletal pain and ruff figural fluency test kit to evaluate their cognition. Results: The teachers inspite of the maximum engagement with curriculum, they have good academic performance, but the cognition is poor as the hours of the day passes by, it is due to the maximum stress they experience in dealing with their musculoskeletal pain.

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