以PLS-SEM調查臺灣高等教育國際教師觀點

Perspectives of International Faculty on Taiwan Higher Education Institutes Investigated by PLS-SEM

陳佳琪(Chia-Chi Chen)

指導教授 ： 張鈿富

淡江大學/教育學院/教育領導與科技管理博士班/博士(2022年)

https://doi.org/10.6846/TKU.2022.00337

摘要

本研究的目的是透過偏最小二乘結構方程模型（PLS-SEM）來調查臺灣高等教育國際教師觀點。
透過自編線上問卷調查，收集了80位目前就職於臺灣國際教師的有效問卷，本研究調查結果先以評估當前國際教師在高等教育機構中面臨的問題，人口數據統計方式調查包括職涯、學術領域、教學與研究情況。同時，透過文獻理論整理出國際教師對高等教育觀點架構，此架構包含對學術機構觀點和政府的觀點、現在工作滿意度和整體滿意度之間的關係，並以PLS-SEM來分析相互之間的關係。
本研究主要結果為：
1.在人口數據調查顯示，大多數國際教師主要以全職講師或助理教授職級就職於公立大學，透過80名參與本研究外籍教師中，來自23個以上的不同國籍，這可展現出臺灣是接受許多不同國籍的國家，他們的主要學術領域是人文藝術、物理科學、數學、工程、製造和建築，此為目前臺灣外籍教師的學術趨勢。
2.大部分國際教師獲得學位皆在國外而非臺灣；然而，研究中66%的外籍教師在臺灣進行博士後研究，大部份國際教師是以學術和專業因素留在臺灣任教。
3.本研究採用學術人員工作滿意度模型並以學術國際教師觀點模型提出假說，此模型以PLS-SEM進行分析，本研究結果發現國際教師對政府觀點與他們當前的工作滿意度和整體狀況有正相關性。

關鍵字

國際化 ； 國際教師 ； 國際教師流動性 ； 臺灣高等教育 ； 學術人員工作滿意度模型 ； PLS-SEM

並列摘要

The purpose of this study is to explore the perspectives of international faculty members on Taiwan higher education institutes (HEIs) by using partial least square structural equation modeling (PLS-SEM).
By using a self-compiled online survey, 80 effective surveys were collected from current Taiwan HEIs international faculty. This study is the first to assess the problems which current international faculty face in higher education institutions through the survey results. This includes career and professional status, teaching and research status, and demographics of the faculty. Moreover, based on the previous studies, the study proposed the conceptual framework of academic international faculty perspective model to examined the relationship between current working conditions and views of institution and government structures, existing levels of satisfaction, and overall levels of satisfaction in order to discover how these factors interact through the use of PLS-SEM.
The main results suggested:
1. The demographic profile survey reveals that most international faculty are employed full-time as lecturers or assistant professors in most public universities. Taiwan is a country that accepts a variety of nationalities of foreigners as indicated by the 80 respondents whose nationalities are from 23 or more different countries. Their academic disciplines are primarily in the humanities and arts, physical science, mathematics, engineering, manufacturing and construction, which indicates the current academic trend in Taiwan.
2. Most international faculty members earned their first degree outside of Taiwan; however, 66% of them earned their post-doctoral degrees in Taiwan. Most international faculty decide to teach in Taiwan for academic and professional reasons.
3. Adopted the academic staff job satisfaction model, this study also proposed the academic international faculty perspective model framework and hypotheses. PLS-SEM interprets the conceptual framework to suggest that the international faculty perspective of government is more directly related to their current work satisfaction and overall satisfaction.

並列關鍵字

Internationalization ； International faculty mobility ； Taiwan higher education ； academic staff job satisfaction model ； PLS-SEM

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