A Model for Developing an Academic Activity Index for Higher Education Instructors Based on Composite Indicators

The assessment of the teacher performance is a subject of criticism due to the lack of a well-establish methodology. This study develops an overall score to measure the dimensions that encompass the academic activities. To that end, a Benefit-of-the-doubt model is proposed. The advantage of this tec...

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Published inEducational policy (Los Altos, Calif.) Vol. 36; no. 5; pp. 1108 - 1134
Main Authors Bas, María del Carmen, Carot, José Miguel
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Angeles, CA SAGE Publications 01.07.2022
SAGE PUBLICATIONS, INC
Subjects
College Faculty
Criticism
Educational evaluation
Foreign Countries
Higher Education
Profiles
Teacher Characteristics
Teacher Effectiveness
Teachers
Spain
teacher profiles
barycentric coordinate system
composite indicators
benefit-of-the doubt
academic activity index
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Summary:The assessment of the teacher performance is a subject of criticism due to the lack of a well-establish methodology. This study develops an overall score to measure the dimensions that encompass the academic activities. To that end, a Benefit-of-the-doubt model is proposed. The advantage of this technique is the flexibility in the weights, so that the model selects for each teacher the most favourable set of weights. Furthermore, the paper proposes the barycentric coordinate system as a method to classify the teachers in clusters depending on their contribution to the dimensions. A specific pie chart has been proposed as an efficient way to report the contribution of the teachers to the dimensions and the overall teacher performance.
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ISSN:0895-9048
1552-3896
DOI:10.1177/0895904820951123