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Faculties Attitudes towards Academic Research: a Basis for Improvement in Publication Productivity
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Monroe, Stuart R. Kumar, Rakesh |
| Copyright Year | 2011 |
| Abstract | Faculties at new capacity building institutions of higher education in Ethiopia are subjected to strong engagement to participate in academic research publication activities. After more than four years there are few published journal articles from the thirteen new Ethiopian universities. The objective of this study was to identify and describe the Aksum University (AKU) faculties “attitudes towards research” as a basis of improvement in publication productivity. The stratified random sample was 51 faculties from five of the six Colleges at AKU which represented 16.3% of the on campus teaching staff. The hypothesis for this study was that the AKU faculties’ attitudes towards academic research publications were negative. The empirical analysis found highly positive faculty attitudes for all aspects of the academic research process. The three principle component factors were described as; AFAC1, academic research is positive for me; AFAC2, reading research is enjoyable and it helps build the institution’s reputation; and AFAC3, a research team experience is positive and will make me work harder. These findings provided support for institutional administrations to implement new ways to facilitate and utilize this latent faculty resource. Faculties’ inactivity and low productivity in academic research publications should not be attributed to “a bad attitude” but rather |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.aabri.com/LV11Manuscripts/LV11034.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
