A Teaching Process Oriented Model for Q...

The lack of standards to objectively assess the quality of teaching opened a new path of research. Teaching involves a lot of different tasks and activities that should be looked at, so, consequently, when talking about the quality of teaching, it makes sense to look at teaching as a process and to assess its maturity. This contribution briefly looks at existing approaches, and also introduces the idea of a teaching maturity model (TeaM) for school and university teachers. As such a framework, even though it is helpful from a measurement perspective, might not be acceptable by teachers. In this paper, a study for testing the TeaM model in respect to its usability and acceptability with informatics lecturers at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt is presented. The results show the interest of our teachers in the model, but also some of the impediments that have to be dealt with when applying the model on a larger scale.