The best evaluated teachers by students at VMU in 2020-2021

The quality of teaching influences successful learning at the university, and students’ opinion about teaching and learning help to reveal the strengths of studies, meet the issues to be improved and make decisions to maintain a high level of study quality. The survey of VMU students “Teaching and Learning Evaluation” is in progress every semester to find out experiences in study courses, to analyze the reasons for positive and negative evaluation, and the results of the survey are used to identify the teachers that are mostly acknowledged by students in the University academic divisions.

Congratulations to the best evaluated teachers in 2020–2021 academic year at Vytautas Magnus University:

• Faculty of Economics and Management – prof. dr. Jolita Vveinhardt;
• Faculty of Natural Sciences – lect. Edvina Krokaitė;
• Faculty of Humanities – lect. Markus Florian Polzer;
• Faculty of Informatics – lect. Simona Staskevičiūtė;
• Faculty of Catholic Theology – canon, assoc. prof. dr. Rimas Skinkaitis;
• Music Academy – assoc. prof. Donaldas Račys;
• Faculty of Arts – dr. Jolita Butkevičienė;
• Faculty of Political Science and Diplomacy – dr. Justinas Juozaitis;
• Faculty of Social Sciences – dr. Loreta Zajančkauskaitė-Staskevičienė;
• Education Academy – assoc. prof. Giedrė Riškutė Kariniauskienė;
• Faculty of Law – dr. Linas Meškys;
• Institute of Foreign Languages – lect. Lina Abraitienė;
• Agriculture Academy – assist. Jevgenija Česnauskė.

The best evaluated teachers have been nominated following the summarized results of teaching quality evaluation in 2020–2021 regarding the ratio of the highest teaching evaluation score and student activity in the survey. The teachers will be awarded at a meeting of the University Senate.

The survey on teaching and learning is one of the University’s periodic surveys to gather the feedback from social stakeholders for the purpose of evaluation and improvement of the quality of studies.