Evaluation of Teachers in Public Schools in the Sultanate of Oman: A study in Quality

Teachers, whether in Oman or any part of the world, no more teach for the local market. Students don't only compete with their peers or fellow Omani students but with the students from all over the world. The quality of teachers can't only judged by local standards anymore. A representative sample of Omani teachers will be randomly selected and their competencies, attitudes toward teaching and other attributes (e.g., self-efficacy, burnout, cognitive ability), related to teaching quality will be assessed. Student evaluation of the sampled teachers will be conducted. Principals' and supervisors' reports will be reviewed for the sampled teachers. Principals will be interviewed and sampled teachers will be the topic of the interview. Demographic variables such as the source of degree (SQU, Arab institutes, foreign institutes, etc), gender, major, region, level taught, experience, and age will be identified. The data will be analyzed using structural equation modeling (SEM) to identify which of the variables best predict the quality of teachers. Quality is defined by the score obtained from the test of basic skills and students' ratings of their teachers.