A Study on the Relationship Between Teaching Performancend Pattern for the Faculty of the National Taiwan University
Date Issued
2009
Date
2009
Author(s)
Chuang, Po-Wen
Abstract
The number of colleges and universities in Taiwan has increased to 162 in 2008. Such a rapid expansion in quantity may results in a low quality for Taiwan’s higher education. However teaching and research are two primary functions of universities. To encourage the faculty to improve the quality of teaching, the National Taiwan University has given out the Excellent Teaching award and Outstanding Teaching award each year. To investigate the association of teaching patterns and teaching performance, we collected the data of receiving awards, institutes, gender, ranks, average class size, class size greater than 100 students, the semester number of class size greater than 100 students, the course taught required by entrance examinations of the graduate school, the number of the courses taught required by entrance examinations of the graduate school, and whether a faculty only teaches graduate-level courses. ur targeted population is the full-time faculty employed by the National Taiwan University during the entire period between 2003 and 2007. We used chi-square test for comparing two proportions, Cochran-Armitage test for trend in proportions, Mann-Whitney U statistic for non-normal continuous data, and logistic regression for the relationship between probability of receiving the award and independent variables of teaching patterns. Univariate analyses revealed that the probability of receiving the award is statistically significantly related with institutes, gender, ranks, average class size, class size greater than 100 students, the semester number of class size greater than 100 students, the course taught required by entrance examinations of the graduate school, the number of the courses taught required by entrance examinations of the graduate school, and whether a faculty only teaches graduate-level courses. However logistic regression found that the probability of receiving the award is only related to gender, average class size, and the number of the courses taught required by entrance examinations of the graduate school. n summary, a NTU faculty who is female and teaches bigger classes and large number of courses required by entrance examinations of the graduate school will have a high probability receiving an Excellent Teaching award or Outstanding Teaching award.
Subjects
Teaching performance
Teaching pattern
Teaching Quality
Chi-square test
Logistic regression
Type
thesis
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