Literature review: influential factors on graduate professor’s performance

Abstract

This paper aims to conduct a review of the literature to map the factors that influence the professor's performance of graduate programs. The methodology consists of researching studies from 2008 to 2018 in the Scopus and Web of Science databases, using the keywords: performance, professor and graduate. The contributions of this study are: creation of a framework with the concept of professor’s performance addressing several authors and the creation of 8 categories. The results show factors that influence professor’s performance according to the mapped literature, categorized into pedagogical, scientific and didactic performance, teacher training, teaching method, pedagogical updating, health, knowledge management, students' perspective and scientific production, with 32% of studies related to research productivity standing out. This research contributes to highlight the work developed by professors and the factors presented help to develop strategies to facilitate the work of the professor and promote better performance.