Post Tenure Post-Tenure Review: Survey Essay

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Through a bevy of research articles and scholarly journal research pieces, the authors of the present survey instrument have established their credentials by producing an exhaustive and multi-dimensional discussion on a highly-charged issue. Their qualifications are therefore preceded by an established status as experts in the field and as unbiased sources for discourse.

It is thus that the survey instrument produced here is used to measure responses in two participating universities. Its reliability is ensured by the objective phrasing of questions and by the selection of two universities with historically divergent patterns of perspective on post-tenure review. This denotes both an internal reliability based on the carefully structured phrasing of unbiased statements and an external reliability based on the comparative nature of the study. Researchers note that they "selected these institutions, both in the western United States, because they have had many years of experience conducting systematic evaluations of tenured faculty; however, they differed in that one campus has had a contentious history of implementation while the other simply incorporated mandatory time frames into its existing merit review system for tenured faculty." (p. 401)

This approach denotes that the survey instrument was designed to approach two distinct sample groups with an equally objective set of questions.

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Where validity is concerned, the survey is characterized by many of the same flaws inherent to survey methodologies in general. Most notably, the quantitative nature of the Likert-scale approach is superficial at best and does not suggest some of the mathematical precision that might be necessary for a study that is more scientific in nature. In this case, validity is strengthened somewhat by the use of qualitative questioning in the 2nd section insofar as this at least allows for a broader array of potential responses. That said, any degree to which this survey instrument lacks internal validity is intended to be compensated for by the objective reliability of the instrument across multiple sample demographics such as measured in the study by Wood & Johnsrud.

The success of the study reported by Wood & Johnsrud helps to warrant the use of the present survey instrument or one modeled according to the characteristics of the present survey instrument. This mitigates the need for a pilot test on the part of the research for the present study, with the trials engaged by Wood & Johnsrud providing a proven template for examining the study subject with both reliability and qualitative nuance.

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