University Professors Research Articles

How to train university professors in assessment? A systematic literature review

Educational research has recognized assessment as a crucial factor of university teaching, prompting Brown (2014) to consider that improving the quality of education requires a renewal of assessment practices. Such centrality suggests that university professors should adopt effective assessment practices. However, professors seem to exhibit forms of resistance to changing assessment practices, stemming from various reasons. Considering this, it would seem appropriate to develop training and research spaces specifically dedicated to assessment in the university context. This research, through a systematic literature review, aims to explore continuous training of university professors on assessment, to identify its peculiar characteristics and suggest guidelines for developing appropriate professional development initiatives. The results obtained may be of interest for designing effective assessment training programs and may also stimulate further research on the topic. Come formare i docenti universitari alla valutazione? Una rassegna sistematica della letteratura. La ricerca educativa ha riconosciuto la valutazione come un elemento cruciale della didattica universitaria, tanto da indurre Brown (2014) a considerare che per migliorare la qualità dell’istruzione sia necessario un rinnovamento delle pratiche valutative. Tuttavia, i docenti sembrano attuare forme di resistenza al cambiamento delle pratiche valutative, con motivazioni di varia natura. Pertanto, sembrerebbe opportuno sviluppare spazi formativi e di ricerca dedicati specificamente alla formazione alla valutazione in ambito universitario. Questa ricerca, attraverso una rassegna sistematica della letteratura, si propone proprio di esplorare la formazione continua dei docenti alla valutazione, per identificarne le caratteristiche peculiari e suggerire linee guida per sviluppare apposite iniziative di sviluppo professionale. I risultati ottenuti possono costituire elementi d’interesse per la progettazione di percorsi formativi efficaci sulla valutazione, stimolando ulteriori ricerche sull’argomento.

Attitudes of Faculty Staff Members And Their Assistants Towards Students' Use Of AI Tools In Scientific Research

The study aims to investigate how faculty staff members and their assistants perceive students' utilization of AI tools in scientific research. Identify the AI tools that staff members and their assistants see students can use in scientific research, and any other potential areas. Outline the challenges that staff members and their assistants may encounter due to students’ utilization of AI tools and define their situations towards the challenges in the upcoming decade. In addition to monitor the initiatives that official institutions could implement to mitigate the possible risks of the misuse of AI tools in scientific research, as perceived by staff members and their assistants. And determine the probable scenario (optimistic, neutral, pessimistic) that may unfold if students start using AI tools in the next decade, according to staff members and their assistants. The current study adopted the method of future scenarios. A questionnaire was used to be able to answer the study Questions. The study population consists of (92) staff members and their assistants from Egypt (46 individual) and the Arab world (46 individual). A Snowball sample was taken. The study results show that the AI tools most recommended by faculty members and teaching assistants for student use in academic research are reference management tools, such as Semantic Scholar and Connected Papers. The findings highlight a significant challenge faced by faculty and teaching assistants: the need for specialized training to enhance their understanding and effective utilization of AI in teaching. This challenge is consistently rated as the foremost concern by both Egyptian and non-Egyptian respondents. The study suggests the importance of training university professors and faculty in utilizing AI tools and familiarizing them with technologies that can evaluate students' reliance on such tools, empowering them to oversee and guide students' use of AI effectively. By integrating a curriculum module that incorporates secure AI tools into academic programs focusing on scientific inquiry, students can be educated on the permitted and forbidden uses of AI tools in scientific research.

The Status Guarantee of a University Professor and Unconstitutional Review ― Regarding the Re-Appointment of the Contract Appointment System and the Term Appointment System of the University Professor ―

The Status Guarantee of a University Professor and Unconstitutional Review ― Regarding the Re-Appointment of the Contract Appointment System and the Term Appointment System of the University Professor ―

Development of a Performance Evaluation Tool for University Professors’ Teaching Competency Using Video Portfolios

Development of a Performance Evaluation Tool for University Professors’ Teaching Competency Using Video Portfolios

전문대학 교수의 역량기반 교육과정편성·운영능력과 총장변혁적리더십, 교수자율성 및 학습민첩성의 구조적 관계

전문대학 교수의 역량기반 교육과정편성·운영능력과 총장변혁적리더십, 교수자율성 및 학습민첩성의 구조적 관계

Study on trust towards university professors with a gender perspective approach: An analysis from the perception of students

Study on trust towards university professors with a gender perspective approach: An analysis from the perception of students

Digital teaching competencies in university professors: Self-assessment and associated factors

Digital teaching competencies in university professors: Self-assessment and associated factors

Зміни у фізичній підготовленості учнів ліцею спортивного профілю

The article examines the indicators of motor abilities of 10th-grade pupils of the sport’s professional college lyceum. The number of respondents was 210 people, the average age of the representatives was 15.46 years. The aim of the study is to determine the level of physical fitness of 10th-grade lyceum pupils and to investigate its dynamics over three years. Research methods and organization. The research was conducted during 2020-2022 on the basis of the Kharkiv Professional College of Sports Lyceum. In order to analyze the level of development of basic motor skills, standard tests of the school physical education program were chosen to determine indicators of speed abilities, agility, strength, power speed abilities and endurance. One-dimensional statistical analysis according to the Student’s t-test was chosen to prove the regularities discovered in the process of research and hypothesis testing. Results. The results of the study showed that the average statistical indicators of physical fitness of 10th-grade students of the Kharkiv Professional College of Sports Lyceum of the 2020-2022 sets are better than the data available in the scientific and methodological periodicals of peers who study in common schools. The average results of the sports lyceum pupils in 60 meters running range from 8.5 to 8.4 s; the results of the 4x9 m shuttle run exercise are within 9.1-9.2 s; pull-up on a high bar 8.2-8.8 times, long jump are in the range from 219 to 222 cm; running 1500 m within 5.29-5.36 min. The results of the exercises correspond to a high level of competence for representatives of this age. Statistical analysis of the obtained data showed that pupils of the 2022 control group compared to representatives of 2020 demonstrated worse results in exercises designed to determine indicators of speed, agility and endurance (p<0.05); indicators of strength and speed-power abilities do not have statistically significant differences. Conclusion. Systematic purposeful sports engagements and an increased level of physical activity allows to ensure a high level of competence in performing standard motor tests. However, during the three years of the study, the indicators of speed, agility and endurance of sports lyceum pupils statistically decreased.

From sodomy to homosexuality: the role of criminal law in Filippo Maria Renazzi’s Rome between the Enlightenment and the Napoleonic Era

ABSTRACT Throughout the nineteenth century, significant transformations took place in the understanding of Western homosexuality, shifting from the domain of criminal law to that of medical science. This article explores the role of European legal thought in laying the groundwork for such changes, particularly starting from the mid-eighteenth century. Examining the contributions of the Roman jurist Filippo Maria Renazzi (1745–1808), this research emphasizes his role among the thinkers who lived through the transition from the European ius commune tradition to the era of criminal codes. Renazzi, a conservative university professor in papal Rome, not unfamiliar with Enlightenment discussions, penned a successful criminal treatise in Latin between 1773 and 1786. His expertise was also in demand during the subsequent development of the criminal code for the Napoleonic Kingdom of Italy. By focusing on the figure of Renazzi, still not extensively studied, this article attempts to shed light on the transition towards the general decriminalization of non-reproductive carnal offenses, including sodomy. In the new penal code project, only acts committed against the will of others and public order remained generically condemned. This underscored the indifference of criminal law towards penalizing behavior that medicine would subsequently come to recognize as an inherent identity.

PREPARATION OF FUTURE TEACHERS FOR TRAINING PHYSICS IN INSTITUTIONS OF PROFESSIONAL PRE-HIGHER EDUCATION AND VOCATIONAL EDUCATION

The article highlights relevant aspects of training future teachers of physics in institutions of professional pre-higher education, vocational education and modelling of practice-oriented tasks. The authors justified the importance of modernizing the content of relevant programmes of the "Physics" discipline, considering the profession of students at professional colleges and lyceums. It is noted that studying physics contributes to the formation of subject competencies of students, the ability to analyse, systematize, generalize information, overcome difficulties of adaptation to professional activity. Based on the analysis of scientific sources, the target, content, operational-activity, diagnostic-resultative blocks of the structural-functional model of training future teachers for teaching physics in institutions of professional pre-higher education and vocational education were selected. The target block is based on the socio-economic demand of society for qualified specialists. The content block contains pedagogical, psychological, methodical, and technological knowledge. Gnostic (research), design, organizational, and communication skills are highlighted in the structure of the operational-activity block. The diagnostic-resultative block will help the physics teacher to make corrections in the process of professional training of college students and vocational-technical lyceums. The importance of practice-oriented tasks in the process of learning physics for students of professional higher education and professional and technical education is indicated. Differences between practice-oriented tasks and other physical tasks are determined. The structure (name of the task, individually meaningful cognitive question, information, task involving work with information) and the algorithm of preparation for creating tasks of practical content in physics are presented. The methodology of teaching simulation of practice-oriented tasks in the process of studying the educational component "Methodology of teaching physics in a specialized school" is illustrated.

Scientists, censorship, and suppression: A combined comparative‐processual analysis of U.S. cases involving chemical and climate change expertise

AbstractAlthough scientific research is often crucial for efforts to achieve improved environmental regulation for industrial products and processes, scientists who document or publicize research on possible risks can face suppression or censorship by industry, government, and other actors. This study contributes to the sociology of science by examining the challenges and responses of environmental scientists in the U.S. in two research areas: toxic chemicals and climate change. Drawing on comparative and processual methods applied to a small‐N, unique data set of cases, the study conducts formal coding of variables for contextual conditions and four general categories of the suppression sequence: triggering circumstances and actions, suppression actions, responses, and outcomes. The first stage of the analysis identifies significant relationships between contextual conditions and the suppression sequence, such as the different forms of suppression that government employees and university professors face. The second stage identifies three composite processual sequences: employment risk for government scientists, records attacks for both government and university scientists, and reputation attacks on university scientists. Together, the two types of analysis advance research by identifying novel relationships in a more systematic way than is accomplished with the standard approach of one or a few cases. The approach also examines the benefits of a mode of comparative analysis that can be more readily connected with theory testing via process tracing at the case level. The practical issue of responding to suppression or censorship is considered, which could be of value to environmental scientists and their partners.

Exploring influential factors in Chinese engineering professors' industrial experience: A big data and CV analysis approach

There is a long-standing criticism in academic circles about the inadequacy of engineering industrial experience for professors in Chinese research universities, but there is a lack of analysis of the manifestations and root causes of the problem. The research aims to contribute meaningful insights into the factors influencing the industrial experience of engineering professors in Chinese research universities, facilitating informed policymaking and fostering collaborative efforts between academia and industry. This paper examines Chinese engineering professors' industrial experience using big data mining, computing, modeling, and image rendering. The data was collected from the publicly available CVs from the websites of various Chinese universities which contains data on colleges and universities across China and analyzed engineering professors' professional trajectories and industrial experience using the method of resume analysis. A nonlinear logistic regression model is fitted to determine the impact of multiple independent variables on the probability of engineering industrial experience among professors, with logit transformation and maximum likelihood estimation. The results show that a low percentage of engineering university professors in Chinese research universities have had industry employment after obtaining their Ph.D. degrees. The regression model indicates that gender, level of inbreeding, overseas study experience, university level, and birth age significantly affect the engineering experience of professors. This study proposes several policy recommendations based on comparative analysis and its research. The study's findings are critical for policymakers to create policies that promote industrial partnerships as a fundamental aspect of the professional development of engineering faculty and for further research in the field.

Analysis of the conditions that enable and constrain knowledge mobilisation in inclusive education: contributions to teacher education

ABSTRACT Despite the recommendations of international institutions on how to promote a more inclusive education, we are witnessing a significant gap between the research findings on Inclusive Education and what really happens in the classrooms. This article explores the conditions that enable or constrain knowledge mobilisation, from the perspective of university professors who teach and research in inclusive education in 10 Spanish Universities. Methodologically, this is a qualitative descriptive study. As a result of the content analysis of the data obtained from the focus groups, we were able to identify four key elements: the characteristics of the actors, the characteristics of knowledge mobilisation, the organisations’ culture, and the relationship between researchers and practitioners. The discussion on the conditions that strain these four elements leads us to propose some strategies to overcome the gap between theory and practice in the field of teacher education.

Obstacles to developing the university curriculum for active learning: A field study on a sample of university professors

نسعى من خلال الدراسة الحالية الى بيان طبيعة المعوقات التي تعوق تطوير المنهج الجامعي للتعلم النشط من خلال دراسة ميدانية على عينة من الاساتذة الجامعيين بلغت(100) فرد حرص الباحث على اختيارهم بشكل عشوائي وفق عدد من المتغيرات, ولجمع البيانات والمعلومات، تم تصميم استبانة بمجموعة من الابعاد ,وقد تحقق الباحث من اختبارات الصدق والثبات للاستبانة، وبعد ذلك طبقت الاستبانة على عينة البحث وقد توصلت الدراسة الى ما يلي: ان الاستبانة ككل حصلت على وسط حسابي (4.15) وهو يمثل الوزن المئوي(83%)، وبالتالي فالتعلم النشط جاء بمستوى جيد جدا ان مجال (المتعلمين) ومجال(الادارة الجامعية) احتلت المركز الاول ,اما المركز الثاني فكان من نصيب (مدرسي المنهج).

Is it true? Another view in the conversation between science, pseudo-science and faith

This contribution is founded on a forty-year friendship between two university psychology professors, for whom dialogue on science and religion has been a perennial theme. At a previous conference they collaborated on a paper on the psychology of religion. The present paper attempts to further this conversation with a dialogue on truth, science, pseudoscience, and faith. The dialogue is structured around a theme from Denis Diderot that the basis of philosophy is incredulity. The ensuing conversation, which interrogates the meaning of science and truth, includes various questions and answers

ФОРМУВАННЯ НАВИЧОК ІНФОРМАЦІЙНОЇ ГІГІЄНИ СТУДЕНТСЬКОЇ МОЛОДІ В УМОВАХ НЕФОРМАЛЬНОЇ ОСВІТИ (ДОСВІД ПАРТНЕРСЬКИХ ПРОЄКТІВ ЗАКЛАДІВ ФАХОВОЇ ПЕРЕДВИЩОЇ ТА ВИЩОЇ ПЕДАГОГІЧНОЇ ОСВІТИ)

The article discusses the development of information hygiene skills among student youth in the context of non-formal education, particularly through the experience of partnership projects involving institutions of professional pre-higher and higher pedagogical education. Based on the methods of analysis and synthesis of scientific sources, as well as practical experience, certain aspects of the concept of "information hygiene" are outlined: a system of knowledge that explores the patterns of influence of the information space and information flows on the social well-being, mental, and physiological health of individuals and society as a whole. The goal of forming information hygiene among student youth is to prevent the negative impact of information and to develop a set of skills to prevent such negative impacts during preventive measures. The components of information hygiene include media literacy skills, information habits, and behavior; the safety and protection of the information space; information-psychological resilience and counteraction to negative influences; stable value orientations; and psychological and physical health. The formation of information hygiene among student youth in the context of non-formal education is presented considering the principles of project-based and activity-based approaches. Non-formal education is defined as organized and continuous educational activities carried out within joint projects implemented in partnership with the Resource Center for Teacher Professional Development of Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko, the cycle commission of the Priluky Humanitarian-Pedagogical Professional College named after Ivan Franko of the Chernihiv Regional Council, and the Department of Journalism of the Machine-Building Professional College of Sumy State University. The focus is on practical approaches to education implemented through partnership media literacy projects, which include interactive methods, practical tasks, and activities aimed at developing critical thinking and information analysis skills. The results of these projects and their impact on enhancing the level of information literacy among students are analyzed. Key words: information hygiene, non-formal education, future teacher, future journalist, interregional project, exercises, text, higher education institution, professional pre-higher education institution, Sumy State Pedagogical University named after A. S. Makarenko, Priluky Humanitarian-Pedagogical Professional College named after Ivan Franko of the Chernihiv Regional Council, Machine-Building Professional College of Sumy State University.

Влияние коммуникативного поведения студентов в виртуальном пространстве на эффективность общения с преподавателями (в парадигме правил делового нетикета)

Digital communication has become an integral part of social reality to a degree that it prevails in some social contexts, e.g., in academic communication between university students and professors. This research featured violations of netiquette rules by university students and their effect on the effectiveness of virtual academic communication. The article introduces a comprehensive review of domestic and foreign publications on virtual communication and digital etiquette. A survey that involved teaching staff affiliated with higher educational institutions in Kemerovo made it possible to formulate the rules of virtual academic netiquette between university students and professors. The authors identified, quantified, and classified violations of these rules, as well as described the response and attitude of professors to such violations. Although all respondents experienced violations of virtual communication, they believe that local students possess a rather high level of communicative culture. In most cases, poor netiquette did not affect the attitude of teachers towards the violators and caused no strong negative reactions. However, some professors admitted that poor netiquette sometimes caused biased attitude and discomfort on their side in dealing with particular students. Gender, age, or job had no effect on the attitude of professors to students who break the rules of virtual academic etiquette. In general, poor academic netiquette had some negative impact on the effectiveness of communication between professors and university students.

Designing a Career Networking Model with an Interpretative Structural Approach

Aim: The purpose of this study is to identify and determine the level of factors affecting career networking behavior. Methods: This research is mixed research with a qualitative-quantitative approach. Library search was used to examine the theoretical foundations, semi-structured interviews were used to collect data, and questionnaires were used to collect the ideas of academic experts. Theme analysis was used to identify factors. In the qualitative part, 15 people were selected from the managers of government organizations in Qom province with the purposeful sampling method in order to identify the factors. In the qualitative part, 14 people were selected from the professors of Farabi Campus and Qom University with the snowball sampling method in order to validate the factors and also compare the factors two by two. Results: Based on the findings of the present research, 31 codes were categorized into 8 factors. The validity of all the factors was confirmed with the Lawshe’s coefficient and the interpretive structural modeling method was used in order to level 8 factors. Finally, 8 factors were prioritized in 5 levels; Customized appointments and mendacious personal branding on the first level, creating toxic communication networks on the second level, distrust of employees to mechanisms on the third level, decision-making by advocacy groups on the fourth level, inefficient supervision, unclear rules and regulations and senior management style were placed at the fifth level. Conclusion: Based on the findings of the research, each of the factors related to career networking can lead to the success of employees in career promotion. Therefore, it is necessary for the managers of the organization to maintain effective human resources by using appropriate mechanisms in order to improve the growth and development of competent employees.

Віктор Даниленко, Олександр Даниленко, Олександр Добржанський.Степан Смаль-Стоцький. «Заслужений перед усієї Україною». – Київ:Парламентське видавництво, 2023, 336 с.

The purpose of the article is to analyze the monograph of the famous modern Ukrainian historians V. Danylenka, O. Dobrzhansky and O. Danylenka, which highlights the life and activities of academician Stepan Yosypovych Smal-Stotsky, a well-known Ukrainian cultural and socio-political figure, teacher, Slavic scholar, who made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian history, literary studies, and journalism. Professor of Chernivtsi and Ukrainian Free University in Prague. Honorary member of the Shevchenko Scientific Society in Lviv. Member of the Bukovyna Diet and the Austrian Parliament. In 1918, he became one of the first academicians of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. Ambassador of the West Ukrainian People's Republic in Czechoslovakia. Founder and first president of the Ukrainian Mohyla-Mazepin Academy of Sciences. The author of school textbooks on his native language, as well as scientific research on I. Franko, Yu. Fedkovich, I. Kotlyarevskyi, T. Shevchenko, and others. He left extensive correspondence and memories rich in information for scientists.

The Impact of Learning How to Teach for College Professors

In higher education institutions, many faculty members are hired because they are experts in their field of study, but not necessarily individuals who are trained in how to teach. This quantitative, quasi-experiment study examined college faculty member’s level of methodology training in relation to student satisfaction, current course performance, attendance, the belief in the need for training, and a faculty member’s sense of efficacy in teaching. In other words, does having a college professor trained in how to teach matter? The researcher found statistically significant results for student satisfaction, current course performance and attendance. The faculty member’s belief in the need for teaching methodology training showed that 96% (n = 87) of the faculty surveyed felt there was a need to be trained to teach at the college level. Faculty members want to be trained and great things can happen when faculty members develop the skills in “how to teach.”