This study examined the degree to which the variance in ratings of faculty by their division chairpersons, for teaching effectiveness and overall contribution to the college, is explained by individual faculty members' levels of agreement with community college goals at Northern Virginia Community College. Faculty agreement with goals was measured using the Community College Goals Inventory (CCGI) developed by Educational Testing Service. / Eight of twenty-one divisions at Northern Virginia Community College were used in the study. These eight divisions contained 218 faculty members. The eight division chairpersons rated their faculty on a six point scale for both teaching effectiveness and overall contribution to the college, and all faculty in each division were asked to complete the CCGI. Approximately 72 percent of the faculty returned the completed forms. / Multiple regression analyses were carried out using the division chairpersons' two ratings of their faculty as the dependent variables and faculty ratings of the goal statements in the CCGI as the independent variables. Findings showed generally moderate to low contributions of faculty levels of agreement with community college goals to explaining the variance in their ratings for teaching effectiveness and overall contributions to the college at Northern Virginia Community College. The findings are not in agreement with the statements of various authors writing in the field of community college studies, who have, instead, asserted the importance and necessity of a high level of faculty agreement with community college goals before those goals could be achieved by the college. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 43-02, Section: A, page: 0378. / Thesis (Ph.D.)--The Florida State University, 1982.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:fsu.edu/oai:fsu.digital.flvc.org:fsu_74733 |
| Contributors | DOUGLAS, RUTH ANN., Florida State University |
| Source Sets | Florida State University |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Text |
| Format | 169 p. |
| Rights | On campus use only. |
| Relation | Dissertation Abstracts International |
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