Open Access5: Beyond Bean Counting: Making Faculty Development Needs Assessment More Meaningful
Author(s) -
Milloy Pamela M.,
Brooke Corly
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2004.tb00403.x
Subject(s) - needs assessment , presentation (obstetrics) , salient , focus group , medical education , faculty development , institution , academic institution , computer science , engineering management , process management , knowledge management , professional development , engineering , political science , business , marketing , medicine , library science , artificial intelligence , law , radiology
Faculty development centers face many challenges including shrinking resources while providing an increasing array of programs and services to enhance learning. Needs assessment can he seen as a valuable tool to help centers focus efforts to meet the most salient needs relevant to the institutional mission. This chapter describes a faculty development needs assessment project that was implemented at a barge public institution. Data collected was used to focus programming and guide decision‐making. Based upon a presentation at the 2002 POD conference, selected needs assessment findings and their programmatic implications for the center are presented.