The Study of the Engineering Faculty's Attitude of Outcome-based Accreditation

Autor: Wei-jung Hsu, 許維蓉
Rok vydání: 2007
Druh dokumentu: 學位論文 ; thesis
Popis: 95
The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among the faculty''s attitude toward accreditation, support of the administration, and the individual faculty''s background accreditation. Stratified random selection was used in the sampling survey, the sample size is 300. In addition mail survey and semi-structure in-depth interview were used to collect data. There are six important findings of this study: (1) objective of accreditation, effectiveness of accreditation, reward system, type of the university to take part in, time for executing accreditation, the faculty''s attitude of participation are significantly related; (2) objective of accreditation, reward system and effectiveness of accreditation are pivotal predictors of the faculty''s attitude; (3) recognition of the importance of accreditation among different faculties were significantly difference; (4) administrative support of the university affects the willingness of the faculty''s involvement for accreditation execution; (5) the reward system could encourage the participating faculty to enhance their teaching involvement; (6) instructional cooperation did not facilitate during the accreditation process. Finally, 8 implications are recommended at the end of the thesis.
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