Assessment of university teachers training needs for professional development

Pages: 1086-1089
Kakali Goswami (Department of Psychology, Rajiv Gandhi University, Itanagar, Arunachal Pradesh)

The present study was carried out to explore the training needs of university teachers for professional development. The study tried to find out important areas where teachers feel future training. The sample of the study was collected from faculty members of a state university situated in Guwahati, Assam. The sample consists of 30 teachers including both male and female. A self constructed questionnaire consisting of thirty two items was administered to collect data. The results showed that university teachers felt need for training in areas like teaching and research skills, computer usages skills, test material development skills. The study suggests that these areas should be included in training curriculum of college and university teachers.