EDUGATIONAL-METHODOLOGICAL ANALYSES OF FACULTY DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES

本研究旨在考察以下三个基本问题：从教学方法、教育心理学和信息科学的角度对学生参与教学活动进行方法论的系统化。2 .采用问卷调查法和访谈法对日本高校开展FD活动的目标、实践方法和存在的障碍进行调查研究。构建面向全校FD项目和个别课堂教学的诊断检查表。一套会前和会后的问卷发给了150名FD工作坊和研讨会的参与者。问卷的内容包括：(1)受访者最关心的任务和问题；(2)阻碍他们个人发展FD的主要障碍；(3)FD实践成功和/或失败的具体例子；以及(4)评估FD活动成果的准则和方法。虽然统计分析不能显示出会后效应的显著正证据，但对描述性回答的解释分析清楚地表明开放式回答和非结构化访谈方法的后续研究的重要性。最后，根据上述各方面的项目，构建了一份清单，用于对个别课堂教学和全校范围内的教育活动进行自我评价。由此得出的个人资料分析，不仅可以使用户的教学改进成为可能，也可以使整个大学激活其教育追求。

This study aims at to examin three basic problems as follow :1. Methodological systematization of FD activities from the viewpoints of instructional methodes, educational psychology, and information sciences.2. Survey study by questionnaire and interview on the goals, practical methods, and some obstructs for the promotion of FD activities at Japanese universities and collegaes.3. Construction of a diagnostic checking-list for university-wide FD program and individual classroom instruction.A set of pre- and post-session questionnairs were administered to 150 participants of FD workshops and seminars. The contents of the questionnaires were (1) tasks and problems of which those subjects were most deeply concerned, (2) major obstructs against their indevidual efforts toward FD, (3) concrete examples of FD practices suceeded and/or failed, and (4) criteria and methods to evaluate the outcomes of their FD activities.Although statistical analyzes could not manifest any significant positive evidence of postsession effect, interpretive analysis on descriptive answers clearly suggested that the importance of follow-up study by the open-end type of answering and unstructured intervew methods.Finally a chek-list was constructed for the self-evaluation of both individual classroom instruction and university-wide educational activities by the sets of items in those areas mentioned above. The analysis of profile drawn from this would not only let users to make their instructional improvement possible, but also university as a whole to activate her educational pursuits.