Comprehensive Multi-source Multi-criterion System for Evaluating the University Faculty members

Abstract

Most of the universities have three main tasks, namely; teaching, scientific research and community service. Staff member is the motive and core element in the education process as he is the leader of the education and upbringing work. Also, the staff member is responsible for developing the universities, and realizing their scientific and practical missions towards the community. It is very important for ensuring the efficiency of the universities to develop the faculty members. The first step towards this is to measure and evaluate the faculty members’ performance. Evaluation will aid in taking the right decisions, encouraging the staff to enhance their performance, and enabling rewarding the distinguished staff. To avoid the disadvantages of existing evaluation systems such as limited evaluation sources and items of valuing, a comprehensive multi-source multi-criterion comprehensive system has been developed. The system has been based on weighted items and sub-items to minimize the personal sentimental factors. The system has been applied on the faculty members of College of Engineering at Qassim University. The results proved its efficiency, accuracy and fairness. Also, the results showed that the system possesses great flexibility such that it can suit the ordinary academic institution and those having special nature.