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Faculty and Student Motivation
  • KFUPM Faculty Perspectives
  • M.R.K. Krishna Rao
  • Information and Computer Science Department
  • College of Computer Science and Engineering
  • King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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KFUPM Faculty Perspectives
  • Thank you
  • Thank you
  • Thank you!
  • Over 100 faculty members responded within 40
    hours.
  • Highly motivated faculty!!

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What is motivation?
  • You can take a horse to the water but you cannot
    force it to drink
  • It will drink only if it's thirsty
  • So is the case with people.
  • Whether it is to excel on a sports field or in
    the 'ivory tower' they must be motivated or
    driven to it, either by themselves or through
    external stimulus.
  • Motivation is a means to reduce the gap between
    ones actual state and some desired state.
  • Extrinsic to get a reward or to avoid punishment
  • Intrinsic working without expecting a reward

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Why bother about motivation?
  • Are we born with the self-motivation?
  • Not really
  • Motivation is a skill which can and must be
    learnt.
  • performance f(ability, motivation)
  • Ability depends on education, experience and
    training
  • Its improvement is a slow and long process.
  • On the other hand, motivation can be improved
    quickly.

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Maslows hierarchy of needs (1943)
  • Generativity and Self Actualization (doing
    things)
  • Esteem Needs (internal ones like self respect,
    autonomy, achievement and external ones like
    status, recognition, attention)
  • Belongingness (affection, belonging, acceptance,
    friendship)
  • Safety (security, protection from physical and
    emotional harm)
  • Physiological Needs (hunger, thirst, shelter,
    etc.)
  • http//psychclassics.asu.edu/Maslow/motivation.htm

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Maslows hierarchy of needs
  • Self Actualization
  • Esteem Needs
  • Belongingness
  • Safety
  • Physiological Needs
  • As the lower needs are satisfied, higher level
    needs become more important

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Question 1 self-satisfaction
  • Assessing the highest need in Marlows hierarchy
    of needs, self actualization.
  • Over 80 of the faculty strongly agree that they
    are motivated to excel in their work by the
    self-satisfaction and love for the profession.

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Question 2 intellectual challenge
  • Again assessing self actualization.
  • Filling the gap between (a) the challenges we
    face and (b) the skills we possess
  • Over 50 strongly agree

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Question 3 esteem needs
  • Assessing the 2nd level in Marlows.
  • Baffled many I should have explained.
  • About 70 agreed.

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Question 4 new ideas and recognition
  • Again assessing the 2nd level.
  • New ideas and possible world-wide recognition
    motivate 75 of the faculty.

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Question 5 Motivated students
  • Assessing the belongingness need.
  • Over 75 of the faculty said that they value
    motivated students and many made interesting
    suggestions on enhancing the motivation

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Question 6 Institutional support
  • Assessing the belongingness and safety needs.
  • About 75 of the faculty said that they value the
    facilities and other support provided by KFUPM

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Question 7 Promotion / increment
  • The two lower (safety and physiological) needs .
  • Lowest total of strongly agree and agree
  • Some noises about salaries in other countries

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Student Motivation Levels
  • Most of the faculty felt that less than 20 of
    our students are highly motivated expected
  • 60 of students are performing upto their
    potential
  • I feel there is a scope for improving at least 60

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Student motivation 1 Staff development
  • 80 of the faculty agree that staff development
    is important
  • DAD should continue with workshops in Sept

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Stud. motivation 2 Integrated curriculum
  • About 2/3 of the faculty place great emphasis on
    integrated curriculum addressing various levels
    of cognitive skills in Blooms taxonomy - ABET

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Student motivation 3 Language skills
  • Our faculty is most passionate about these skills
  • 90 agreeing
  • Many comments in question 8

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Stud. motivation 4 better assessment
  • Assessment techniques like performance tasks and
    projects that model real world problems
  • Needs further investigation to adopt them

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Stud. Motivat. 5 employer community
  • Work with industry and other employer community
    in designing the curriculum so that the skills
    and techniques needed at work are given more
    emphasis in our programs

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Student motivation 6 student involvement in
material selection
  • Least number of strongly-agree responses
  • Concerns about student maturity
  • Power of student evaluation

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Student motivation 7 Online material
  • Least number of strongly-agree responses
  • Security concerns Maslows safety
  • Yet, 60 see it useful as supporting material!

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Conclusions
  • Faculty and student motivation levels at KFUPM
    are comparable to those levels at other good
    universities across the globe
  • Both faculty and students enthusiastically
    participated in the surveys
  • Over 100 responses from faculty members within 40
    hours really commendable
  • Improve the reading skills of our students
  • Faculty development workshops on topics like
    critical thinking and active learning
  • Work closely with industry and employer community

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Recommendations Stud. Motivation
  • Send our students to spend a semester or two at a
    foreign university
  • Develops interpersonal skills
  • Major 2 exams should be scheduled to finish in a
    short period
  • Free mind is an important asset
  • Tutorial session for courses with no lab comp.
  • Reduce office hours to 5
  • Introduce active learning techniques
  • Extra-curricular activities
  • Sporting activities beyond PE course work

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Recommendations Fac. Motivation
  • Salary survey
  • Faculty contracts for longer periods, 3 or 4
    years
  • After the first renewal
  • Get-togethers / surveys to get faculty feedback
  • Sense of belonging
  • Issues / concerns addressed quickly
  • Enjoyable and productive committee work
  • Membership in no more than 3 or 4 committees
  • Committees with at most 6-8 members
  • Committee recommendations acted upon

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Recommendations Fac. Motivation
  • Examination center to release faculty members
    from mundane invigilation duty
  • Gardens and walkways with overhead covers
  • Frequent college-level social meetings
  • Encourage quality research
  • Emphasis on quality not quantity
  • Discourage publications in low quality (money
    making) conferences and journals
  • They publish if registration fee is paid
  • Saw a journal paper with mistakes in the first 5
    words!

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Faculty Motivation
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Student Motivation
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