1999 / September

我國大學教師升等制度對獎勵研究生產力功效之分析 －事件史分析法應用實例
The Impact of Research Productivity on Promotion of College Faculty in Taiwan: An Application of Event History Analysis

研究論文 Research Article

田芳華
Flora F. Tien

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本研究之主旨有二：（1）探討我國大學敎師升等制度是否做到奬勵敎師硏究生產力；（2）檢驗升等酬賞之獲得，是否不受硏究生產力以外其它背景因素的影響。本研究對象爲 1,017 位任敎於九所大學，分屬人文、社會丶自然、工程類科之專任講師、副敎授與敎授。敎師背景、升等時間和歷年著作記錄由下述資料匯整而成：敎育部敎師名冊，國科會研究人才檔，九校出版之敎師著作目錄，作者進行之郵寄調査。本研究採事件史分析法，以年爲時間分析單位，共建構 13,968 個人年記錄。作者首先以生命史表格法證實無論在升副敎授或升敎授階段，硏究生產力高之敎師組，其升等速度均較中、低組爲快。其次以非連續時間成敗比對數模式顯示在控制性別、年齡、學位、國內外訓練、年資、公私立學校別、系所類科與進入學術市場時間後，硏究生產力仍爲決定升等成功與否之關鍵。一般而言，欲升等之等級越高，平日的研究表現就越形重要；與出版期刊論文相比，出版書籍較有利於升等。雖然我國大學敎師升等制度的確做到獎勵硏究生產力，但本研究亦發現：在研究生產力和其它條件相同的狀況下，女性與年輕敎師處於升等不利地位。此現象值得學術界及敎育行政當局重視。

This study explores the research question: Does the promotion system in Taiwan reward faculty research productivity? By conducting event history analyses, this paper demonstrates that the simple answer to the question is "yes." The results of life-table analysis show that the more research one produces, the sooner one gets promotion. Further­more, even after controlling for the effects of demographic, educational, and institutional variables, discrete-time logit models indicate that the number of research publications predicts the odds of promotion well. Although the promotion system is unquestionably effective in rewarding research productivity for at least some faculty, whether the system is truly universalistic remains an open question. Most significantly, female and younger faculty members are clearly disadvantaged when seeking promotion. Future research on exploring how particularism operates in the Taiwanese academic community is thus recommended.

高等敎育, 升等, 大學敎師研究生產力, 事件史分析法
higher education, promotion, faculty research productivity, event history analysis

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