Document Type : Scientific - Research

Authors

1 Assistant Professor, Education Testing Organization, Tehran, Iran

2 Researcher, Education Testing Organization, Tehran, Iran

3 Researcher, Education Testing Organization, Tehran, Iran.

Abstract

Universities and Higher Education Institutions (HEI) like other organizations evaluate performance of faculty members for effective management of human resources. Faculty members are one of the key factors of higher education systems the most important human capital and the most effectiveness inputs of higher education systems that their quality functions improvement has deep influence on the efficiency and effectiveness enhancement. Therefore evaluating the performance of faculty members in most university systems are very important and its results can use for improving in quality of university system. There are various methods for evaluating the performance of faculty members and among them internal evaluation have many applications in higher education system and evaluation of faculty members. The purpose of this research is to study the status of teachers activities in engineering departments based on the results of internal evaluation reports. In this research meta-analysis method on 50 internal evaluation reports of engineering departments and the performance of faculty members have been studied in three domains of education, research and specialized services. In order to study the current status of the faculty members’ performance 10 criteria and 38 indicators are used. The analysis of data indicates that the quality of the faculties’ performance is far from desirable level and need revision and reformation. At the end, in order to improve the weak points, some recommendations have been presented.  

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