Development of a Measure of Teacher Effectiveness for IIUM

The paper reports the development of a multidimensional measure to assess teaching effectiveness. The scale, known as Teaching Feedback Survey for the International Islamic University Malaysia (TFS-IIUM), was developed and tested on a large sample of students and lecturers. By employing a principal components analysis with varimax rotation, an instrument consisting of 30 items was obtained, with four factorially independent dimensions of teaching effectiveness: Delivery of Information, Meaningful Interaction, Feedback and Fair Treatment, and Islamic Orientation. It documented high internal consistency reliability coefficients and a substantial amount of content, convergent-discriminant and criterion-related validity coefficients

Psychology in Malaysia : looking ahead

Psychology touches almost every aspect of our lives, from the self to the family and to society as a whole. lVhat is our nature, how is personality developed or shaped, and why do people behave the way they do? Why and how are people different in their intelligence and temperaments and can we treat abnonnal behaviors with psychological techniques? These and many other questions arise in our minds at least some time in our lives. Especially in the modern world when man has advanced tremendously in science and technolog}~ he has yet to comprehend his own selfand his fellow beings for increased selfand mutual understanding that would hopefully result in a more harmonious world. There are many views on human behaviors and mental processes offered by psychologists. The development of modem psychology has taken place mostly in the West, particularly in the United State