Analyzing Academic Members’ Expectations from a Performance Evaluation System and Their Perceptions of Obstacles to Such an Evaluation System: Education Faculties Sample
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The assesment and evaluation of academic members in faculties in a systematic way is a crucial issue because higher education institutions put a large emphasis on a transparent, efficient and successful management. This study aims to conduct a mixed (quantitative and qualitative) research about the expectations of Education Faculties’ academic members about a performance evaluation approach and the obstacles to such an evaluation system. Convergent parallel mixed method design has been preferred as research model. “Expectations from performance assessment” subscale and “barriers to performance assessment” subscale have been used as data collection tools which are developed by Tonbul (2008). Independent Samples t-test and ANOVA are used for analysis of quantitave data; and content analysis is used for analysis of qualitative data.
As a result of this study, it is found out that academic members have a
moderate level of expectations from a performance evaluation approach. The
highest expectations belong to assistant professors while the lowest belong to
professors. The mostly agreed expectations of academic members from a
performance evaluation approach are found to be “developing a consensus about
the criteria of an effective academician, affecting professional development of
academic members positively and increasing workload of academic members”. The
most frequent obstacles to a performance evaluation approach emerged as
“current organizational mechanism of higher education institutions” and
“workload of faculty academic members”. The scores of both expectations and
obstacles significantly differ depending on “taking academic incentive, work
experience in higher education, academic title and satisfaction level of
academicians from their institutions”. As a result of qualitative analysis,
there emerge many themes and codes related to a performance evaluation system.
In “Attitude Towards Performance Approach” theme, the most frequent codes
appeared to be “adopters, doubters”. In Academicians’ Priorities theme, the
codes emerged as “research and publications, evaluation of quality of
instruction, advisory for undergraduates and postgraduates”; In Positive
Effects theme, the codes emerged as “motivation, financial support, search of
quality”; In Negative Effects theme, the codes emerged as “intra-institutional
rivalry, academic dishonesty”; In Obstacles theme, the codes emerged as
“intense workload, lack of instrintic motivation”; and finally In Suggestions theme, the codes emerged as
“more officer employment, institutional support for academic efforts and
research publishings”.
Anahtar Kelimeler
Kaynakça
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Ayrıntılar
Birincil Dil
İngilizce
Konular
Eğitim Üzerine Çalışmalar
Bölüm
Araştırma Makalesi
Yayımlanma Tarihi
30 Ekim 2019
Gönderilme Tarihi
4 Ekim 2018
Kabul Tarihi
18 Ekim 2019
Yayımlandığı Sayı
Yıl 2019 Cilt: 48 Sayı: 2