A Study On Performance Appraisal System For Higher Vocational College Teachers In XG College

With the gradual implementation of China Institution Reform and the rapid developmentof higher vocational education, the quality of teaching is crucial to the survival anddevelopment of a higher vocational college. The teacher is the key element of improvingteaching quality. So, it is rather urgent and necessary to improve the Performance AppraisalSystem for higher vocational college teachers and construct a better system which can reflectthe characteristics of Higher Vocational Education.This essay aims to construct a Performance Appraisal System for Higher VocationalCollege teachers which can meet the requirement of the Higher Vocational Education.Specifically, the new Performance Appraisal System is supposed to meet two conditions. Theone is to integrate the concept of Higher Vocational Education into the appraisal system. Theimplementation of the system will be good to carry out the concept in the teaching practice.The other is that the implementation of the Performance Appraisal System can arouse theworking enthusiasm of teachers, correctly guide the working direction and then improve theteaching quality.The followings are the three main research methodologies:First, questionnaire method. By ways of questionnaire, we can achieve three objectives:one is to find the questions of the current appraisal system through questionnaire onspecialists and teachers in Higher Vocational Colleges. The second is to scientifically selectthe key indicators of performance appraisal by questionnaire on specialists, leaders andteachers. The third is to reasonably balance the importance of every indicator throughquestionnaire on teachers, leaders, and students in Higher Vocational Colleges.Second, case study method. The essay selects the study cases from XG College. It aimsto find the specific questions existed in the current Performance Appraisal System through thecase study. Based on this chance, the study expects to make the corresponding theoreticalexploration on the construction of Performance Appraisal System in Higher VocationalColleges.Third, literature research method. It provides the previous literature base for the essay. The searching contents are mainly indicators, methods, existed questions and strategies ofPerformance Appraisal in Higher Vocational Colleges.The main study findings are as follows:1.There are many questions existed in the current Performance Appraisal System inHigher Vocational Colleges. We find the six main questions through questionnaire. Firstly,they consider the Performance Appraisal System for teachers in Higher Vocational Colleges asthe same as that in common colleges and universities, even in Technical secondary schools.The special requirements of higher vocational education are not reflected. Secondly, thesystem changes frequently; the appraisal contents are not steady; and the teachers are at a loss.Thirdly, the appraisal indicators are monotonous, without comprehensively reflecting theteachers Contributions and quality. Fourthly, the appraisal is not systematic, with separatedappraisal rules and results. Fifthly, the performance salary is not connected with the appraisal,and the performance salary standard is single. Sixthly, the performance salary gap is small,without the effect of motivation, rewards and punishments.2.The essay extracts the key indicators for the Performance Appraisal for highervocational teachers, which include3first-grade indexes and10second-grade indexes. Thethree first-grade indexes are: requirements of higher vocational education (reflecting thespecial requirements for teachers), teaching and scientific research. Ten second-grade indexesare: vocational qualification certificate, social service, teaching workload, teaching quality,profession and high-quality curriculum construction, contests and honors, academicmonograph, essay and teaching material, scientific research achievement and technicalinvention.3.The weight of first-grade index and second-grade index for higher vocational collegeteachers is computed according to the data statistics. In many studies and practices, thedetermination of index weight is usually subjective judgment, lacking of scientific methodand basis. Based on questionnaire survey, this paper changes the qualitative expression of theimportance of a certain indicator to quantitative expression. Then it computes the index weighby using the analytic hierarchy process (AHP).There are three first-grade indexes: the weight of higher vocational education requirements is0.214, the teaching is0.5, and the scientific research is0.286. Thesecond-grade index influencing higher vocational education requirements includes towindexes: the weight of vocational qualification certificate is0.625, and the social service is0.375. The second-grade index influencing teaching includes four indexes: the weight ofteaching workload is0.353, the teaching quality is0.295, the profession and high-qualitycurriculum construction is0.176, the weight of contests and honors is0.176. Thesecond-grade index influencing scientific research includes four indexes: the weight ofacademic monograph, essay and teaching material is0.5, the scientific research achievementis0.0625, the research project is0.25, and the technical invention reward is0.1875.4.We aim to construct the comprehensive and quantitative Performance AppraisalSystem for higher vocational teachers which can reflect the requirements of higher vocationaleducation. Comprehensive (eventual) performance appraisal score of higher vocationalteachers=score of higher vocational education requirements×weight+score of teachingwork×weight+score of scientific research×weight; score of higher vocational educationrequirements=score of vocational qualification certificate×weight+score of social service×weight(reflecting the special requirements of higher vocational education); Teaching score=score of teaching load×weight+score of teaching quality×weight+score of theprofession and high-quality curriculum construction×weight+score of contests and honors×weight; score of scientific research=score of academic monograph, essay and teachingmaterial×weight+score of research project×weight+score of scientific researchachievement×weight+score of technical invention reward×weight.