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Title	Evaluating how education faculty spend their time at a private research university
Author	Lee, Michelle Silver
Author email	michelll@usc.edu;michelll@usc.edu
Degree	Doctor of Education
Document type	Dissertation
Degree program	Education (Leadership)
School	Rossier School of Education
Date defended/completed	2012-10-10
Date submitted	2012-11-19
Date approved	2012-11-19
Restricted until	2012-11-19
Date published	2012-11-19
Advisor (committee chair)	Sundt, Melora
Advisor (committee member)	Cerling, Lee Melguizo, Tatiana
Abstract	Defining and measuring faculty productivity are among the most central issues for quality and accountability in higher education today, and it is the subject this study seeks to illuminate. This study first examines how the productivity of faculty in the School of Education at a private university differ according to different faculty characteristics and according to faculty rank. It then examines which activities are highly valued at this organization by determining the relative value of each activity, providing a benchmark to evaluate whether faculty are indeed spending their time on the activities that enhance the mission of the school and the institution. Finally, the study examines the percentage of faculty participating in activities that are considered highly productive and what proportion of faculty time is spent on these activities. ❧ I examine the Productivity Index (PI) of faculty from the School of Education at a private research university to answer these questions. Data from the PI were collected over the six years the measure was in use. This study will contribute to the existing body of research on faculty work by examining the use of this measurement tool and the resulting data collected by that tool to further understand ways in which faculty work may be reported and valued, and to identify variances in faculty work and time spent which may be influenced by various faculty characteristics. This study is a secondary analysis of longitudinal data collected by the PI. As the research questions above were largely comparing groups, the study uses a quantitative approach. ❧ This study is significant in adding to the understanding of the factors and characteristics of productive faculty which will in turn provide insight to the facts and myths regarding faculty productivity. This study examines how faculty spend their time (behavior) and how they are motivated to spend time on certain activities versus other activities (motivation). This study also identifies which characteristics effect behavior and motivation, and in turn, how those characteristics influenced productivity. Significantly, what was found, using statistical analysis, was that teaching was the most highly valued activity among research, service and teaching. This was true for both the tenured and tenure-track faculty and special faculty.
Keyword	Evaluation
Language	English
Part of collection	University of Southern California dissertations and theses
Publisher (of the original version)	University of Southern California
Place of publication (of the original version)	Los Angeles, California
Publisher (of the digital version)	University of Southern California. Libraries
Provenance	Electronically uploaded by the author
Type	texts
Legacy record ID	usctheses-m
Rights	Lee, Michelle Silver
Access conditions	The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the author, as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. The original signature page accompanying the original submission of the work to the USC Libraries is retained by the USC Libraries and a copy of it may be obtained by authorized requesters contacting the repository e-mail address given.
Repository name	University of Southern California Digital Library
Repository address	USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus MC 7002, 106 University Village, Los Angeles, California 90089-7002, USA
Repository email	cisadmin@usc.edu
Archival file	uscthesesreloadpub_Volume4/etd-LeeMichell-1306.pdf