Needs Assessment of the Graduate School of the University of Bohol

Abstract

Needs assessment is a part of the organization’s planning process to identify the gaps that transpired in the present conditions and the desired outcomes. The main thrust of this study is to assess the needs of the professors and students of the graduate school of the University of Bohol as the basis for proposing a development program. Standards then must be checked in the light of the relevance and needs of the teachers, students, and the industry where they are expected to flourish in the teaching-learning process. This study used the normative survey method with the aid of the standardized questionnaire to conduct a survey of the instructional and research needs of the Graduate School. Results showed that professors identified the following top rank priorities: designing effective assessments, developing students’ critical thinking skills, and course and curriculum development. The students had the following top rank needs: developing critical thinking skills, incorporating active learning strategies into courses, course curriculum development, designing effective assessments, and writing across the curriculum. The needs of both professors and students were perceived by both groups as Moderately Needed which cannot be attributable to whatever factors caused these needs to be felt or perceived by them as such because those were not dealt with in this study.