Facilitating research professors to be T&L leaders ALTC Leadership Grant 2009 -2011 Changing the Culture of Teaching & Learning in ICT and Engineering:

ALTC Leadership Grant 2009 -2011

Changing the Culture of Teaching & Learning in ICT

and Engineering:

facilitating research professors to be T&L leadersfacilitating research professors to be T&L leaders

Sylvia L. Edwards & Peter O’Shea QUT

Judithe Sheard & John Hurst Monash

Wayne Brookes & Tim Aubrey UTSSylvia Edwards –ACDICT Leadership Forum July 2010

Overview

• Introduction to project

• Survey feedback

• Identified sub-themes from workshop

• What is planned next

Sylvia Edwards - ACDICT Deans Leadership Forum July 2010

Purpose of the project

• build teaching leadership in the disciplines of Engineering and ICT

• enhance L&T through leadership capacity-building at the institutional level• seeks to raise the profile & encourage recognition of

fundamental importance of T&L in professoriate • Rationale:

• the development of T&L leadership “from scratch” is problematical

• social science research indicates that it is more promising to transfer skills which already exist in a different context

(Boden, 2006; Perkins & Salomon, 1992).


1st Workshops

• 2 @ QUT, 1 each at UTS & Monash

• Worked with the professoriate at each institution

• Examined leadership in research and L&T, and explored ways to apply research leadership to the L&T domain

• Professorial academics of Engineering, ICT & Science were invited to offer information on their Research and T&L views and their academic behaviours in a survey

• Same survey was modified to seek the opinions of the junior academic staff in each institution


Initial survey data on leadership

• 72 members of professoriate respondedQUT – 43UTS – 14Monash – 15

• Survey looked at 3 concepts on 16 items• Job satisfaction• Role model • Professional Importance

• Paper submission in progress


Questions

• To what extent do you gain personal job satisfaction from each of the following?

• To what extent do you try to be a role model for each of the following?

• How important are the following for advancement in the academic profession?


Overall Rankings [likert scale 1-5]

t-tests for difference between mean response

Outcomes: highly significant differences between research and L&T at 0.01 level

Research ranking views • Common highest items for research by

professoriate for all three questions• Publishing refereed Research papers

• Others within the top three rank positions• Keeping your Research at the cutting edge (Job Satisfaction &

Role Model)• Successfully implementing new Research projects (Job

Satisfaction)• Mentoring future Research leaders (Role Model)• Developing a high Research profile (Professional Importance)• Securing funding for Research (Professional Importance)

• Common lowest items for research by professoriate for all three questions• Reviewing Research papers/reports/activities• Undertaking Research training


L&T ranking views• Common highest items for L&T by professoriate for

all three questions• Improving student satisfaction ratings for your Teaching

• Others within the top three rank positions• Keeping your Teaching resources up to date and effective (Job

Satisfaction & Role Model)• Successfully implementing new Learning &Teaching initiatives (Job

Satisfaction & Role Model)• Developing a high Learning & Teaching profile (Professional Importance)• Winning Learning & Teaching awards (Professional Importance)

• Common lowest items for L&T by professoriate for all three questions• Participating in Higher Education L&T conferences• Reviewing Learning & Teaching papers/reports/activities


L&TR

Job Satisfaction

Role Model

Sylvia Edwards - ICT Deans Leadership Forum July 2010

L&TR

ResearchTeaching & Learning

L&TR

Professional Importance

Rank Position weighting

Goal:

To compare item importance between Research and L&T

Method:• Rank items in research order of importance• Match L&T items to the research ranked order• Calculate differences in position weighting• Colour code those with differences > 5


Rank of items 1-16

Sylvia Edwards - ICT Deans Leadership Forum July 2010

JOB SATISFACTION

(Topics, ordered by ranking from research perspective) RESEARCH

RankingL&T

RankingRANK

DIFFERENCE

Publishing refereed papers 1 10 -9Cutting edge and up to date 2 2 0Implementing new initiatives 3 3 0Advancing knowledge and skills 4 4 0Participating in conferences 5 15 -10Mentoring future leaders 6 7 -1Fostering teams within own uni 7 8 -1Developing high profile 8 5 3Fostering networks beyond own uni 9 12 -3Strategic planning of activities 10 6 4Reading literature in your field 11 13 -2Improving student satisfaction ratings 12 1 11Securing funding for activities 13 12 1Winning awards 14 9 5Undertaking training 15 14 1Reviewing papers/reports/activities 16 16 0

Note: most items are similarly positioned between R and L&T (4 items with no difference in their position, and 4 items with a difference of 1)

Rank of items 1-16

ROLE MODEL

(Topics, ordered by ranking from research perspective) RESEARCH

RankL&TTank

RANK DIFFERENCE

Cutting edge and up to date 1 2 -1Publishing refereed papers 2 12 -10Mentoring future leaders 3 4 -1Implementing new initiatives 4 3 1Advancing knowledge and skills 5 5 0Fostering teams within own uni 6 9 -3Fostering networks beyond own uni 7 8 -1Improving student satisfaction ratings 8 1 7Developing high profile 9 7 2Securing funding for activities 10 11 -1Strategic planning of activities 11 6 5Participating in conferences 12 16 -4Reading literature in your field 13 14 -1Reviewing papers/reports/activities 14 15 -1Undertaking training 15 13 2Winning awards 16 10 6

Note: most items are similarly positioned between R and L&T ( 1 item has no difference, and 7 items having a difference of 1 position)

Rank of items 1-16

PROFESSIONAL IMPORTANCE

(Topics, ordered by ranking from research perspective) RESEARCH RankL&TRank

RANK DIFFERENCE

Publishing refereed papers 1 9 -8Developing high profile 2 2 0Securing funding for activities 3 5 -2Cutting edge and up to date 4 6 -2Implementing new initiatives 5 4 1

Fostering networks beyond own uni 6 12 -6Winning awards 7 3 4Reading literature in your field 8 15 -7Fostering teams within own uni 9 10 -1Strategic planning of activities 10 8 2Advancing knowledge and skills 11 7 4Participating in conferences 12 14 -2Mentoring future leaders 13 11 2

Improving student satisfaction ratings 14 1 13Reviewing papers/reports/activities 15 16 -1Undertaking training 16 13 3

Note: rank order demonstrates greater difference between R and L&T ( 1 item - no difference, 3 - 1 rank difference, 5 items - 2 rank difference with remaining 7 far more difference)

FYI Qualitative data

Two questions were also asked on leadership:

What are the important attributes of a Research Leader? And the challenges?

What are the important attributes of a Learning and Teaching Leader? And the challenges?


What is planed next?

• Currently running 2nd themed workshops• Discussing the data from the survey

• Offer opportunity to consider ways to improve teaching survey scores, and a run through of the PREQ vs CEQ

• Discuss leadership attributes in research vs T&L

• Consider how to pipeline research through honours and projects

• Annual Report due later this month

• 3rd Workshop in latter half of 2010

• Presentations at national conferences in 2011

• Project ends Aug 2011Sylvia L. Edwards – ACDICT Leadership Forum,

July 2010

Any questions?And thanks for the opportunity

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