The purpose of this doctoral thesis research study was first to investigate the
needs for a faculty development program in Middle East Technical University
(METU). Later, in the second phase, models that explained the linear structural
relationships among factors that might be influential on faculty& / #146 / s perceived
competencies about the skills necessary for the instructional practices, personal,
professional and organizational developments were proposed and compared.
In this study, a questionnaire considering different aspects of faculty
developments were sent to all of the academicians in METU. After collecting data
from faculty members and research assistants, they were analyzed both
descriptively and using principal component factor analysis. Based on the results of
factor analysis, linear structural relations models fitting the data were generated
through LISREL-SIMPLIS computer program runs.
The descriptive results indicated that there was a feeling for need to improve
the faculty' / s self-proficiency in different instructional issues. On the other hand,
both descriptive results and LISREL modeling results indicated that faculty
members and research assistants show different characteristics based on their needs
and factors affecting their self-proficiencies. These aspects will lead us to prepare
different faculty development programs based on their needs and priorities.
The result for both faculty members and research assistants showed that in a
faculty, instructional self-proficiency cannot be considered as a single absolute
parameter. Rather, it should be considered as several interrelated parameters
connected to different aspects of faculty' / s proficiencies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/445320/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 September 2003 |
| Creators | Moeini, Hosein |
| Contributors | Alpsan, Dogan |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Ph.D. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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