台灣大學理工與電資領域教師的研究資源與成果關係之探討

Abstract

由於台灣對高等教育的高度需求，大學教育已從傳統的菁英教育轉型為大眾化的教育，而台灣大專院校的數量也在2008年增加至162所。大學教育的普及化雖滿足社會大眾對於接受高等教育的需求，但數量如此急速的擴充卻可能導致高等教育品質低落。因為研究是大學品質評鑑的重要標準，在洪(2008)的研究之後，本研究探討國家科學委員會所投入的研究經費是否提升了大學的研究水準，並檢視台灣理工電機資訊領域專任教師其研究資源與研究成果兩者之間是否相關。

本研究特別以國立臺灣大學理學院、工學院及電機資訊學院的專任教師為研究對象。研究資源包括近五年(西元2003至2007年)平均每人每年申請行政院國家科學委員會專題研究計畫件數及金額。研究成果則包括近五年(西元2003至2007年)每人平均每年其論文著述為SCI或SSCI期刊且列為第一作者或通訊作者之篇數。研究資源與研究成果的資料蒐集期間為2008年11月至2009年3月自國科會網站查詢。此外，其他變數為性別、教授級別和就任現職年資。 結果顯示，研究資源多寡與研究成果大致呈正向關係。此外，特聘教授、免評估教師和非特聘與免評估教師之間有統計性顯著差異( p<0.05)：每人每年國家科學委員會計畫申請平均件數、每人每年國家科學委員會計畫平均金額，每人每年發表SCI平均篇數、每人每年發表SCI排名為前15%平均篇數。特聘教授相較於免評估教師或一般教師，其充足的研究資源也反映出較好的研究成果。總而言之，本研究結果顯示研究資源與研究成為呈正相關。

Due to the high demand of higher education in Taiwan, the college education has transformed from traditional elite education to a more general education and the number of colleges and universities in Taiwan has increased to 162 in 2008. Although a general college education satisfies the demand by the Taiwan society, such a rapid expansion in quantity may results in a low quality for higher education. Because research is one of the major criteria for evaluation of the quality of university, following Hung (2008), we investigated whether the investment in research fund by the National Science Council (NSC) can uplift the research level of the universities, and examine the relationship between research resource and research performance in the faculty of universities for the field of science and engineering in Taiwan. Our targeted population is the full-time faculty in the sciences and engineering at the National Taiwan Universities which consist of those in College of Science, College of Engineering, and College of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. The data on research resource consists of the number and amount of research grants awarded to the individual faculty by the NSC during the 5-year period between 2003 and 2007. The data on research performance includes the research papers published in the Science Citation Indexed (SCI) or Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journals between 2003 and 2007 for which the individual faculty is the first or the corresponding author. Data on both research resource and performance were collected from the NSC website during the period from November, 2008 to March 2009. In addition, other variables consist of gender, ranks, and years at the current position. The results indicate that there is a general positive trend between the magnitude of research resource and the research performance. In addition, statistically significant differences were observed among distinguished professor or faculty exempt from evaluation, and regular faculty in the following indices (p<0.05): average number of NSC research grants per faculty per year, the amount of NSC research fund per faculty per year, average number of SCI papers per faculty per year; and the average number of the top 15% SCI papers per faculty per year. The abundant research resource by the distinguished professor is also reflected in better research performance than faculty exempt from evaluation or the regular faculty. In summary, our results show that research resource is positively related to the research performance.