In academics, particularly for teaching fraternity, authorities expect and assign the teachers multiple tasks and targets, like, teaching (including evaluation of examinees), research-publications (in reputed, indexed journals), academic administration, consultancy and funded research projects, extra-curricular activities, etc. As expected, one cannot do justice in all or cannot excel in each and every functional role or responsibility.
The question here is how best a full time (university) teacher (professor) be evaluated, and how best the institutes should prioritise those 'tasks'/ roles/ functional responsibilities, so as to enable the teachers to perform better (achieving organizational and individual goals)?
Can anyone, cite references of recent literature, and, the best practices?
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Ideally, an academic (worldwide?) is assessed according to teaching, research, and community service (what you call extra-curricular activities). However, because some universities seek to excel in research (rewarded by Nobel Prizes, for instance), they get the reputation of a research university such as MIT, UCLA, Cornell, John Hopkins U. in the USA, which does not mean that there is no teaching there to be assessed on. On the other hand, there are universities which do not accord a particular interest to research (often reflected in meager budget research), and seek to see themselves as excellent teaching universities whose students may eventually land in research universities after graduation.
The practice, in general, is that academics are assessed out of 100 points in their promotion, which points are defalcated differently in different countries and universities. Some may accord a higher score for research (for e.g., 50%), with 35% for teaching and 15 % for community service. Some others may play with a different score distribution, which, by the way, would tell you which activity is favored by which universities when it comes to student enrollment, teacher recruitment, and staff promotion.
I hope this will help.
Zouheir Maalej Thanks for very positive and informative inputs. Take this opportunity, wishing you & family, happy & safe new year - 2022. Regards; Rabi
I do so much teaching with a schedule, I think maybe the weighting of the three components needs to be flexible since research takes a back seat at times due to time constraints. Agree with Zouheir Maalej
I think that the best practices in the research and applications of "assessment of multi-tasking teaching" are through the systemic approach, which looks at the teacher as the basis for activating education.
As atividades foram baseadas em questões de gamificação. A gamificação é uma das sugestões constantes em nosso documento de referência oficial: Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC). Os estudantes gostam muito deste tipo de atividade. O link para consulta a este documento é: http://basenacionalcomum.mec.gov.br/
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