Teaching effectiveness assessment based on LISREL model: A case study

Abstract

In educational research, we are often interested in the discussion of how teaching processes affect the learning processes of students. In this paper, three exogenous latent variables, teaching attitudes, teaching methods and teaching contents are used to explain the teaching processes. Two endogenous latent variables, learning load and learning effectiveness are used to explain the learning processes of students. We use LISREL model to analyze the survey data of teaching evaluations of universities of Taiwan in 1998 and to discuss the interested causality relationships. Moreover, we discuss the differences between the finding in this paper and the general recognition of teachers.