Teaching Effectiveness and Impact
Teaching Effectiveness
Every semester, we have conduct two times of student evaluations, including a formative teaching assessment during the semester and a summative teaching assessment at the end of semester. The goal of the formative teaching assessment is to give teachers feedbacks about how students feel about their teaching contents. The goal of the summative teaching assessment is to evaluate teachers’ performance towards students’ perspectives. For teachers whose evaluation scores are fall between 3.0 and -3.5, they have to complete a teaching improvement report. And they have access to some resources such as teaching consultations and a video teaching analysis to refer to. For those whose evaluation scores are fall below 3, we’ll hold a tracking and counseling team meeting to help these teachers. If they still fail to reach the standard, the full-time teachers will be are asked not to teach required courses while part-time teachers will be discontinuance of are terminated from employment.
Figure 3.13. Distribution of graduation country
Faculty Preparedness
Compared to other universities, the recruitment policy for the College of Business and Finance focuses on recruiting full-time faculty rather than contract faculty, which ensures job security for faculty members. Over the last 5 years, the College of Business and Finance has recruited a total of 47 full-time faculty members.
Figure 3.20. Contract faculty ratio
Teaching Impact
(1) Teaching Awards
Our faculty members have demonstrated their outstanding performance as follows:
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Professor Hu Shi-Wen was awarded the Ministry of Education’s Senior Distinguished Teacher Award in 2020. He has long served as the chief editor of the international journals EconLit and RePEc while also being a member of the evaluation committee for the economics department and the Foundation for Higher Education Evaluation and Accreditation. He has also served as a consultant for the government of Taichung County and Taichung City. In terms of teaching, he has twice earned the Excellent Teaching Award from Feng Chia University and once earned the Teaching Excellence Award from the Ministry of Education.
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Associate Professor Guo You-Cheng of the Department of Economics was awarded the Ministry of Education’s Teaching Practice Research Excellence Plan in 2019, with the selected project entitled “Establishing an Economics Mobile Learning Platform and Analyzing the Usage and Effectiveness of Students.”
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Eight students from the Department of Statistics and two students from the Business Analytics Dual Bachelor’s Degree Program, under the guidance of Professor Chen Wan-Shu, passed the SAS international certification in 2020. The SAS certification is a highly reputable professional certification recognized by countries around the world. It can be applied in various industries, such as finance, telecommunications, insurance, transportation, government agencies, and scientific research and education and can provide solutions for various business intelligence and decision-support systems. SAS certification is also commonly used in research and teaching in academia, and obtaining SAS certification can prove professional competence and provide concrete guarantees for future employment and income.
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Director Huang Cheng-Fu and Professor Wu Ju-Chuan of the Department of Business Administration were recognized by the Chinese Enterprise Resource Planning Society for their outstanding results in promoting e-learning and were awarded the 108th E-Learning Excellence Award.
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The Bachelor's Degree Program in Financial Engineering and Actuarial Science of COB/COF officially entered the UCAP–AC (UCAP–Advanced Curriculum) advanced course list in 2020, becoming the only department in Taiwan to achieve SOA certification.
(2) Employment & Unemployment Rate
We have surveyed our alumni to understand their job status and their attitude toward our university. We can use the employment rate of our graduates to determine our teaching impacts. The employment rate and unemployment rate are summarized in Figure 3.14. The blue line represents the employment rate while the orange one denotes the unemployment rate. As the figure indicates, our employment rate has increased over time while the unemployment rate decreases year after year.
(3) Compatibility between current job and the professional training course
When it comes to the compatibility between the current job and the professional training course, as summarized in Figure 3.15, about 34% of graduates think it is highly relevant. Although the relevancy has dropped over time, it makes sense as industrial knowledge is also changing over time.
(4) Satisfaction of the graduates
Only 5% of our graduates are dissatisfied with what they learn from the university. More importantly, after 5 years of graduation, the level of dissatisfaction remains. As previously noted, compatibility grows over time, yet the level of dissatisfaction stays the same, implying that our graduates also understand that industrial know-how is changeable.
Figure 3.21. Employment / unemployment rate
Figure 3.22. Compatibility between current job and the professional training course
