The evaluation of faculty development programs

This article reviews literature pertinent to the evaluation of faculty development programs and presents data from several studies conducted at two institutions. These data were consistent with those previously reported in that faculty participants consistently expressed satisfaction with development services. In addition, one study found that most faculty members voluntarily took some action to improve their instructional effectiveness, though only a minority pursued these efforts in depth. Volunteers who worked intensively with a faculty development consultant improved more on objective measures of effectiveness than did those who were only superficially involved in improvement efforts; those who received no consultative assistance failed to improve significantly. Evidence from a final study provided a control for faculty motivation and led to the conclusion that improvement was contingent both on faculty desire to improve and on the availability of professional assistance.     

Professorship: A faculty development program

A faculty development program was designed to enhance the ability of graduate faculty members to supervise research activities of graduate students. The program was developed to stress interpersonal problem solving in advisement and professional issues. The classroom techniques of discussion teaching, case method, and psychodrama were used to encourage and enhance the full participation of the faculty. Participants indicated that the program enabled them to examine their own beliefs and knowledge regarding issues surrounding graduate education.     

The experiences of Vietnamese university faculty in relation to their faculty development

As Vietnam higher education has explored ways to integrate into the international community, professional development of faculty is becoming a key element. However, there is a significant shortage of faculty development (FD) in Vietnam, resulting in a large gap in quality, quantity, and qualifications between Vietnamese faculty and their colleagues in Southeast Asia. We conducted a phenomenological study to gain insights into the experiences of Vietnamese faculty in their FD. Four themes emerged: faculty’s perceptions of faculty roles, FD activity participation, factors affecting their FD, and FD desires. To improve the quality of FD in Vietnam, we offered a number of recommendations for faculty members, policymakers at different levels, and further research.     

Faculty evaluation of a faculty development center

There is relatively little firm information concerning the effectiveness of faculty development programs at the present time. This condition is not likely to be alleviated by any one study, including the present one. The study does, however, offer a rationale for the faculty survey approach it uses and reports faculty responses concerning importance and performance, to each of 19 functions that make up the faculty development program at the institution involved. The study was conducted in a large urban university and involved responses from both faculty who had participated in the program during the preceding year and those who had not. It was concluded that, despite the subjective nature and other limitations of the survey approach to evaluation of faculty development programs, the information provided is useful both as a basis for decision making and program improvement.     

战略视角下的高职院校师资队伍建设——我院师资队伍建设三年规划的设计思路和理性思考

本文强调了高职院校师资队伍建设对高职院校发展的战略地位和作用,结合深圳信息职业技术师资队伍建设的实践,对高职院校师资建设规划,“双高型”、“双师型”教师队伍建设、高层次人才和团队的引进培养、高职院校教师队伍特色建设、兼职教师队伍建设等重要问题提出理论思考和分析,探讨了战略视角下高职院校师资队伍建设必须重视和关注的问题,以期对高职院校师资建设有所借鉴。     

Reexamination of traditional emphases in faculty development

Clinically based direct interventions with individual colleagues were used to demonstrate ways of surmounting four traditional constraints in faculty development research: First, the usual problem of engaging the least needy faculty was countered by enlisting colleagues who evidenced distress, in classroom and writing performances, as research subjects. Second, faculty who would have refused feedback based on student ratings were trained to be reliable self-evaluators on seven specific teaching skills. Third, participants demonstrated an ability to improve their teaching skills while making measureable progress as regimented and productive writers. Fourth, a crossover design of involvement in teaching and writing programs, combined with subjects' self-ratings of related scholarly activities, suggests that teaching and scholarly productivity can be mutually facilitative.     

The professor as a person: The role of faculty well-being in faculty development

This article examines the rationale for an expanded definition of faculty development and reviews institutional structures and practices which support the personal and professional development of faculty through faculty and academic development, employee assistance, and health promotion programs.Glenda Hubbard is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Psychological Counseling, and a practicing therapist in the Employee Assistance Service of the Hubbard Center for Faculty and Staff Support at Appalachian State University. She received her Ph.D. in counseling psychology from the University of Miami. Her current interests include the faculty development needs of mid-career faculty and women's issues in counseling. Sally Atkins is a professor in the Department of Human Development and Psychological Counseling, and a faculty/staff psychologist for the Hubbard Center at Appalachian State University. She received her Ph.D. in counselor education from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Her current interests include faculty quality of life, therapy and the arts, and cross-cultural psychology.     

高校实验教师发展策略研究

实验室是高校创新的源头,实验教师是实验室队伍建设的核心.该文分析了实验教师队伍发展现状、问题及其成因,运用职业生涯规划理论、激励理论和人本管理理论,提出了高校实验教师队伍发展策略.     

合并升格高职院校师资队伍建设研究

师资队伍建设是合并升格高职院校工作的重中之重。针对合并升格高职院校师资队伍中存在的问题,通过采取培训、提升、转型、打造名师、加强师德建设等多种方式,促进教师队伍整体素质的提高,增强学院的办学质量和实力,促进合并升格高职院校实现又快又好发展。     

Differences in arranging faculty development through deans and chairs

A systematic approach of interviews, questionnaires, and follow-ups was used with deans and chairpeople to introduce faculty development programs to a doctoral degree granting university. This approach to initiating programs via management (and not faculty) had several practical advantages, and it provided insights about possible generalities of how deans and chairs resist and facilitate developmental proposals. Deans in this sample responded with more emotional distance, but with greater readiness to conceptualize applications and to make helpful arrangements (e.g., schedule workshops with specific groups of faculty). Chairs, in contrast, typically reacted defensively, at least in the short run, often discounting faculty problems or the likelihood that help could or should be effectively administered.     

高校外语教师发展的促进方式与途径

高校外语教师发展存在诸多问题,本文分析教师发展的制约或阻滞因素,讨论高校外语教师发展的促进方式与途径,即:在学科建设中提升教师的科研能力,在课程建设中提升教师的教学能力,在现代信息技术与外语教学深度融合中提升教师的外语教育技术能力,以及构建外语教师学术共同体。外语教师要自觉努力,采取实际行动,促进专业发展、教学发展、个人发展和组织发展。