This study measured the current characteristics of faculty development in public
two-year colleges in Texas. Current characteristics were determined by an electronic
questionnaire completed by the responding staff or faculty member designated by each
Texas two-year college as the person most responsible for faculty development. In the
case when faculty development responsibility was divided by technical and academic
faculty, both designees at the college were sent electronic questionnaires.
Of the 78 colleges, 6 colleges, or 8 percent, divided faculty development
responsibilities between two individuals at the college. Those six identified colleges
were sent two questionnaires each for the two selected representatives. Of those 6
colleges, 4 responded or 67 per cent. Overall, of the 78 colleges sent electronic
questionnaires, 57 responded, yielding a 73 percent return.
The major results of the study indicate:
1. The majority of colleges studied do not designate a faculty development
space at the college.2. A large percentage of two-year public colleges in Texas, 49.2 percent of the
total respondents, had no staff member responsible for faculty development
who spent more than 51 percent of the time on faculty development duties.
3. Two-year public colleges budget relatively few funds for faculty
development.
4. Of all respondents 42.6 percent report that they did not perform a needs
assessment.
5. Most Texas two-year public colleges, 92.7 percent of respondents, claimed
that their colleges evaluated faculty development activities. However, almost
25 percent of those respondents did not use an evaluation instrument. Of
those respondents using an instrument, the most selected area of
measurement was participant satisfaction. Performance outcomes measure
was the least selected category at 5.8 percent.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:tamu.edu/oai:repository.tamu.edu:1969.1/2572 |
| Date | 01 November 2005 |
| Creators | Wesley, Jeanne |
| Contributors | Stenning, Walter |
| Publisher | Texas A&M University |
| Source Sets | Texas A and M University |
| Language | en_US |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Book, Thesis, Electronic Dissertation, text |
| Format | 301519 bytes, electronic, application/pdf, born digital |
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