ACTIVITY ASSESSMENT

 

Statistical data for the Annual Report are collected every year in December and January. The Report has been published repeatedly in virtually identical format since 1994. In this way, an impressive volume of historical data has been amassed. This Report offers a relatively exhaustive overview of research and development activities, and it enables comparisons between individual faculties. At the same time, assessment of research and development activities takes place as part of reviews of research centres, research projects, grant projects and projects using special-purpose funding. Assessment is also inherent in competitive reappointment procedures held every three to five years. Accreditation proceedings also involve assessment of research and development activities of all teachers.

 

The most thorough assessment of research and development activities of individuals is represented by defences of dissertations in DSPs, and in the approval process for associate and full professorship appointments.

 

Most of the information about research and development activities, including professional CVs, lists of publications, associate and full professorship appointment proceedings and doctoral degree programmes, are available in the Information System of Masaryk University.

 

Further information may also be found in the research and development databases (CEP, CEZ, RIV).

 

Student assessment of teachers and standards of teaching is carried out annually by most MU faculties, but the student surveys were never organized on the level of the entire university. In 2001, discussions on different levels about the form and contents of a unified student inquiry to be included in the Information System of MU took place.

 

The MU evaluation process also includes preparation of accreditation and re-accreditation materials. All information about the subjects and their place in the degree programmes (teachers, number of periods and credit rates, completion and examination, syllabuses, annotations, recommended literature) are available in the Information System of MU.

 

Significant events of the MU evaluation process included the second visit of the group of Visiting Consultants from the Universities Project of the Salzburg Seminar in May 2001. The programme focused on the assessment and analysis of changes in the area of international educational activities of the University, its financial situation and integration of study in the past two years.