Developing the academic administration to enhance teachers’ professional ability at Beihai Vocational College in China

Abstract

The objectives of this study were 1) to investigate the problems and needs of the professional ability of college teachers in my country, taking Beihai Vocational College as an example, and 2) to develop the academic administration guidelines to enhance the professional ability of college teachers at Beihai Vocational College. 260 teachers from Beihai Vocational College were obtained by simple random sampling. The research tool used in this study was a questionnaire. The data were analyzed by content analysis and expressed as percentages, mean, and standard deviation. The results show that: 1) the problems and needs of the academic management guidelines for improving teachers' professional ability were at the "highest" level; 2) the guidelines of academic management for improving teachers' professional ability are divided into 10 units. All 10 units were evaluated by three experts, and the value of the IOC was 0.67 to 1.00, which means that the academic management system to improve teachers' professional ability was acceptable and can be used as a guideline for the academic management system to improve teachers' professional ability to improve teachers' professional ability and level.