Faculty leadership through self-assessment

Basically, an assessment on faculty's performance involves assessing of competencies in needed domains of the profession. Indeed, outside of the teaching competencies and different skilled responsibilities that facilitate outline what makes a good faculty; a college should even have sure traits or characteristics that area unit imperative to form his or her teaching effective. The absence or lack of such traits might spell the distinction between success and failure in transfer regarding the specified learning outcomes in students. The performance of the faculty is also influenced by several factors like family and monetary background; expertise and exposure. For this study, 168 faculty members were hand-picked from the engineering schools attached to Anna University of Technology, Coimbatore, across nine zones. A group of visible and invisible competencies were derived from previous studies. "T" check and confirmative co relational analysis were made to make sure the validity and dependability of the constructs. A positive association with age, family size and family financial gain and also the competencies possessed were found. [Dr. S. Srividhya, P. Viji. Faculty leadership through self-assessment. Life Sci J 2012; 9(4): 4774-4778] (ISSN: 1097-8135). http://www.lifesciencesite.com. 717