Research Performance of Higher Education Institutions

Higher education institutions in Zamboanga Peninsula continue to have low participation in research among their members of the faculty, which in turn affects the research outputs of Research Centers (RCs). The study assessed the research performance and outputs of teachers and RCs among HEIs in Zamboanga City. Public and private schools have similar research performances in terms of the number of researches performed by each teacher-researcher; and with the number of researchers per research. In both cases however, HEIs with university status performed better than the colleges in research. Most of the researches can be classified as institutional, descriptive in type, mostly published in in-house journals and not peer reviewed. Utilization of research outputs is limited much as most researches are school-funded. CHEDRO and ZRCs lacked coordination and initiative to take the lead in building the culture of research among the HEIs in the city. Access to foreign funding, international refereed journals and genuine utilization of research outputs are for the moment marginal. Concluding, the HEIs in Zamboanga City have relatively low research outputs even more among the colleges.

Key words - Research performance, research centers, peer review