Abstract
The aim of the current study is to examine research and teaching assessments in the higher education sector from a gender perspective and specifically the associations between individual attributes (gender, age, country of birth, and tenure), academic attributes (rank and faculty), and achievements in research and teaching (measured by bonuses awarded based on research excellence and student feedback surveys). The data were collected from Ariel University, where a unique system of faculty performance evaluation was in place between 2003 and 2012. The main findings of this study point to statistically significant correlations between gender and excellence in research: Female faculty members achieved slightly higher teaching scores than male faculty members while male faculty members showed superiority in research excellence scores. We also found more male faculty members in higher ranks than female faculty members. The findings of this study suggest that female faculty members may have gender-specific factors that explain their lower research achievements, such as factors related to work-family balance at fertility age.
Highlights
This study focuses on the performance quality in research and teaching in higher education from a gender perspective
Institutions are rewarded by how close they are to the student/faculty ratio determined by the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Israel Council of Higher Education (CHE) (21.5 for universities and 35.5 for colleges) and by the rate of graduates who complete their studies in the standard number of years
In the first section we will present the findings concerning all senior faculty members who were eligible to submit an application for an excellence bonus at the institution based on their activities during the years 2003-2012, including those who did and those who did not receive an excellence bonus, with the aim of examining the connection between gender and other variables and faculty outputs over the years
Summary
This study focuses on the performance quality in research and teaching in higher education from a gender perspective. Assessing Research and Teaching Performance in Israel’s Higher Education System: The Case Study of Ariel University. The budgeting model operated by the universities includes two components: Teaching and research. Institutions are rewarded by how close they are to the student/faculty ratio determined by the Planning and Budgeting Committee (PBC) of the Israel Council of Higher Education (CHE) (21.5 for universities and 35.5 for colleges) and by the rate of graduates who complete their studies in the standard number of years. The research component of the budget is based on competitive resource allocation and is allocated according to the relative score of each university. Each component has a relative weight reflecting its relative significance in determining distribution of the budget
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