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Assessing and Rewarding Excellent Academic Teachers for the benefit of an Organisation.

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Summary, in English

In this article we describe and analyse a system for rewarding excellence in university teaching developed at the Faculty of Engineering at Lund University in Sweden. Individual teachers are rewarded for the effort they invest in the support of student learning. However, it is the organization that establishes a reward system and it does so for developmental purposes. These two purposes, individual and organizational, need to be balanced but the organizational perspective is wide enough to host the individual perspective, especially if the individual teacher contributes to the overall development at institutional level. The Faculty of Engineering rewards teachers with a clear focus on student learning and a developed capability to reflect scholarly on their teaching practice. The balance between theoretical knowledge about teaching and student learning and the actual teaching practice is crucial and examined in detail. It is the reflected practitioner that is rewarded – for the benefit of the organization.

Publishing year

2013

Language

English

Pages

40-61

Publication/Series

European Journal of Higher Education

Volume

3

Issue

1

Document type

Journal article

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

Topic

  • Educational Sciences

Keywords

  • teaching excellence
  • reward system
  • organizational development
  • teaching portfolio
  • assessment of teaching excellence
  • impact of reward systems
  • transferability of reward systems

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 2156-8235