Internet Learning Volume 3, Number 1, Spring 2014 | Page 113
Beliefs Regarding Faculty Participation
Participants
Nonparticipants
Belief Evaluation Belief Evaluation
M SD M SD M SD M SD
Help me improve my course 2.00 0.93 1.13 0.35 1.50 1.22 1.00 0.00
Give me the opportunity to earn 2.63 2.20 1.63 0.92 1.83 1.33 2.17 1.47
the incentive
Keep me from taking the 5.29 1.98 4.25 1.91 5.83 2.04 4.83 2.64
required training
Allow me to learn some new 2.57 1.27 1.25 0.46 1.83 1.60 1.17 0.41
techniques
Help me gain a better
2.00 0.93 1.50 1.07 2.00 2.00 1.33 0.82
understanding of quality
Support my Promotion and 2.63 0.92 1.25 0.46 2.83 1.94 1.83 0.75
Tenure packet
Allow me to help other faculty 3.25 1.58 1.88 0.83 2.83 1.47 1.50 0.55
improve their courses
Be time consuming and effortful 4.88 1.36 2.88 1.55 6.00 1.55 2.67 1.37
Require changes I do not want to
make
Require me to commit time that
I do not have
Subject me to faculty members
not getting along
Be an unfamiliar process and
cause me to be confused
Be an infringement on my
academic freedom
3.63 1.41 3.63 1.41 2.17 1.94 3.67 2.07
4.63 0.74 4.13 1.25 5.17 1.72 4.83 2.04
2.88 1.46 5.13 1.36 2.33 1.97 6.00 1.27
2.50 1.60 4.25 1.67 3.00 1.58 4.00 1.10
2.25 1.49 5.63 1.19 2.00 2.00 5.67 1.37
Table 1
Behavioral Beliefs and Outcome Evaluations (i.e., Indirect Assessment of Attitudes) Expressed
by Faculty Members during the Introduction of the Internal Peer Review Process
by Peer Review Participation
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