Modeling the Economic Cost of Inadequate Teaching and Mentoring

这个探索性项目将开发初步的经济模型，为大学提供工具，以理解和量化教师在教学、指导和建议方面的成就的价值。这一理解将为在学生互动中适当奖励优秀教师成就提供理论基础。在课堂内外为学生提供优质服务的教师对学校和机构都有很大的价值，但很难从经济上量化这些成就。这一困难往往意味着，在研究资金方面表现出色的教师，在学校给予的奖励要比在学生体验方面表现出色的教师高得多。这种奖励差距的结果是形成了一种低估本科生教师成就的教师文化。该项目还将开发初步的经济模型，以了解外部支助的真正影响。对这些模型的初步验证将通过对各种资助方案中选定的工程机构进行调查来完成。这些模型将被用来估计教师在教学、研究和服务方面的相对贡献。我们将与该机构进行比较？S院长和系主任认为这是相对的贡献。工程和科学教育的改善以及对提供本科课程的工程教师的适当奖励，预计将导致学生保留率提高，招生人数增加，毕业生质量提高。所有这些因素都应该对我们毕业生的职业成功产生积极的影响。模型结果还将使人们能够更好地了解教职员工参与的各种活动的经济影响，这将有助于大学管理人员在资源分配方面做出更明智的决定。

This exploratory project will develop preliminary economic models that give universities the tools to understand and quantify the value of faculty accomplishments in teaching, mentoring, and advising. This understanding will provide the rationale for properly rewarding excellent faculty accomplishments in student interactions. There is great value to the school and institution in faculty who provide excellent student services in and out of the classroom, but it is difficult to quantify these accomplishments economically. This difficulty often means high achieving faculty in research funding are given much greater rewards by the school than high achieving faculty in the area of student experiences. The result of this disparity of rewards is to develop a faculty culture which undervalues faculty accomplishments for undergraduate students. This project will also develop preliminary economic models for the true impact of extramural support. Preliminary validation of these models will be done by surveying selected engineering institutions across a spectrum of funding scenarios. The models will be used to estimate the relative contributions of faculty in teaching, research, and service. Comparisons will be made to what the institution?s deans and department heads perceive as the relative contributions.Improvement of engineering and science education and the appropriate rewarding of engineering faculty who deliver the undergraduate program is expected to result in improved student retention, increased enrollments, and improved quality of graduates. All of these factors should then result in a positive impact on the career success of our graduates. The model results will also enable development of a better understanding of the economic impact of the various activities in which faculty engage, which will help university administrators make more informed decisions about allocation of resources.