Research on the Application of Big Data in the Performance Management of University Teachers

Scientific and technological progress has promoted social change, and digital technologies such as big data, the Internet, cloud computing, and the Internet of Things have begun to develop, changing human thinking structure, living habits, learning behaviors, communication methods, and production technologies. Big data, as a hot topic in current digital technology and digital development, is based on massive data and generates value through computational analysis. It has been applied in various fields and different scenarios. China has issued the “Overall Layout Plan for Digital China Construction” document, which clarifies the need to accelerate the construction of Digital China, promote digital technology innovation, improve the digital governance system, and enhance digital security capabilities. The digital reform and development of education is an important part of the construction of a digital China, and it is an inevitable path to achieve the modernization of China's education. The development of digital education requires innovative digital applications in teaching methods, teaching resources, teaching evaluation, educational governance, and actively promoting the application of digital technologies such as big data and cloud computing in specific educational scenarios. The performance management of university teachers, as one of the important contents of educational governance and university management, relies on big data to establish a data governance system for the performance management of university teachers, which is precisely the demand for the digital development and construction of education. This article explores the application of big data in the digital construction of performance management for university teachers from three aspects: background, definition and characteristics of big data, and digitalization of performance management for university teachers. With big data as the core and data governance as the goal, big data application design is carried out from three perspectives: improving the digital performance system for university teachers, digitizing the performance content of university teachers, and designing a big data platform for university teacher performance management.