Accountability Measures in Higher Education and Academic Workload: A Ten-Year Comparison

Autor/inn/en	Nakano Koga, Silvia Mirlene; Beaupré-Lavallée, Alexandre; Bégin-Caouette, Olivier
Titel	Accountability Measures in Higher Education and Academic Workload: A Ten-Year Comparison
Quelle	In: Brock Education: A Journal of Educational Research and Practice, 30 (2021) 2, S.116-136 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1183-1189
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Accountability; Universities; College Faculty; Faculty Workload; Teacher Evaluation; Noninstructional Responsibility; Women Faculty; Gender Differences; Neoliberalism; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Verantwortung; University; Universität; Fakultät; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Frauenakademie; Weibliche Gelehrte; Geschlechterkonflikt; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Kanada
Abstract	At the core of New Public Management (NPM) reforms sits the concept of accountability of publicly funded organizations. In Canada, it is suggested that provinces have increased the number of accountability procedures imposed on universities and that those measures would have had an impact on professors' academic workload. This study discusses the evolution of academic workload and evaluation of professors' activities over the last decade, as well as the current distribution of academic workload among the university staff. It relies on the Canadian faculty's perspectives collected through the 2007 Changing Academic Profession (CAP) study (n = 1151) and the 2017 Academic Profession in the Knowledge Society (APIKS) study (n = 2968). Findings suggest that academic workload increased significantly in the 10 years that academic activities are significantly more evaluated, although by academics themselves in a smaller proportion, and that the administrative burden lies more heavily on female and senior faculty members. Descriptive statistics and a MANOVA comparing the scores of five variables in 2007 and 2017 suggest that academic workload increased significantly in 10 years, academic activities are significantly more evaluated, although less by academics themselves, female academics report dedicating more time to administrative tasks and being more frequently evaluated, and senior administrative staff and external reviewers are perceived as being more involved in the evaluation of academic activities in 2017 than in 2007. Our interpretation is that accountability measures could increase professors' administrative burden and grant more authority to non-academic staff. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01