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Defining Qualitative Measures of Faculty Activity: Extending the Research on Productivity
Presenter(s): Heather K. Isaacs, University of Delaware; Michael F. Middaugh, University of Delaware
The Delaware Study of Instructional Costs and Productivity has established a reputation as the tool of choice for quantitative measures of faculty activity, i.e., how much they teach and how much externally funded research and service they perform. The Delaware Study received a FIPSE grant to study non-classroom aspects of faculty activity, and is now engaged in a serious conversation with current and prospective participants concerning the development of qualitative measures of faculty activitythat is, how well faculty teach, research, and engage in public service. This session will provoke audience participation in that conversation, and add to the definition and development of appropriate variables to describe non-classroom faculty activity. |
 This knowledge resource from SCUP is a concurrent session presented at the Society's thirty-seventh annual, international conference and Expo, SCUP–37, in San Diego, CA (USA), in July of 2002. Audiocassettes of this and other SCUP–37 sessions are available for purchase here. |
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