scholarly journals An Analysis of College Teachers’ Awareness about Conducting Action Research for Effective Teaching

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 7
Author(s):  
Saima Naz
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ḥafṣa Azalea Azra

Objective: This paper aims to reveal differences in students’ and teachers’ perception of the latter’s teaching leadership and discusses the characteristics of effective teaching leadership. Method: The current study investigates students’ and teachers’ perceptions of teaching leadership through questionnaires, divides their perceptive differences into three categories, and compiles interview outlines based on Baker’s Path-Goal theory. These three categories of teachers were selected, resulting in a sample of twenty-five college teachers from China’s coastal area, who were then interviewed in depth. Results: College teachers and students had different perceptions of teaching leaderships, with the most common being students having low evaluations and teachers having high self-evaluations. Six main characteristics of effective teaching leadership of university teachers are summarized from the coding analysis of interview results.


2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Tanzil Huda ◽  
Indah Rakhmawati Afrida ◽  
Mariyae Chelong

Nobody can claim that all instructions are free from problems. Realizing that all instruction are potential to have problems, college teachers should do reflective practices.  One of the do reflective practices which can be done integratively and sytematically with their instructions is classroom action research (CAR). The present study tried to investigate the lecturers’ perception on CAR. The study focused on the indentifi-cation of  the lecturers’ awareness on CAR and digging up the the factors affected the lecturers perception on CAR. The study employed survey method which posited qualitative   approach. The study  revealed that the leacturers’ awareness on CAR was relatively low. It also indicated that  there were some factors which affected the lecturers’ awareness on CAR i.e., 1) the lecturer’s prior education or pre-service education; 2) their involvement in scientific forums; 3) self-regulated learning by reading books on CAR.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Faricha Rizqi

Students’ writing anxiety leads students to have low writing skill whereas writing is undeniably crucial. This research is aimed to improve the students’ writing skill and investigate the extent to which peer correction method improves the students’ skill in writing explanation text. Peer correction is a teaching language method in which students receive feedback from their peer dealing with their writings. This method is considered as an effective teaching strategy which enables students to have enthusiasm and confidence in writing. Thirty of tenth grade students in Surakarta participated in this research. The data of this classroom action research were obtained by conducting test, observation and interview. Based on the data analyzed, it is found that the students’ writing skill on each aspect of writing is continuously improved in each cycle. This is affected by effective steps of peer correction method implemented.


2015 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 269
Author(s):  
Yasser Mallapiang

This research aimed at explaining the improvement of the students’ pronunciation ability in terms of English consonant dealing with fricative and affricative and English vowel dealing with front vowel and central vowel. To explain the improvement, the researcher used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken at the eleventh grade students of SMK Negeri 1 Jeneponto with the number of the subject 28 students with 25 women and 3 men. Instruments are pronunciation/reading test and observation. The findings of the research were students’ improvement in English consonant of the English fricative consonant was 2.9 in data source (D-Test), 4.2 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.4 in cycle 2 whereas in English affricative consonant was 3.0 in data source (D-Test), 4.2 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.6 in cycle II. The students’ pronunciation ability of English front vowel was 3.3 in data source (D-Test), 4.6 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.7 in cycle 2. English Central Vowel was 3.4 in data source (D-Test), 4.7 in cycle 1 and then, it became 6.8 in cycle 2.The students’ observation was 50.1 % in cycle 1 and it became 72.9 % in cycle 2. It means that NRT (Noticing-Reformulation Task)is one of the effective teaching strategies for the eleventh grade students at SMK Negeri 1 Jeneponto to improve their pronunciation ability.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 5
Author(s):  
Muhammad Astrianto Setiadi ◽  
Rezky Nurfayanti ◽  
Rezky Nurfayanti

This research aimed at explaining the improvement of the students’ Writing ability in writing component of organitation and writing component of content. To explain the improvement, the researcher used a Classroom Action Research (CAR) which was conducted in two cycles in which every cycle consisted of four meetings. The location of this research was taken at the eleventh grade students of SMA Negeri 1 Bontonompo Selatan with the number of the subject 30 students with 20 women and 10 men. Instruments are test and observation. The findings of the research were the result of students’ mean score in organization was 50 after evaluation in cycle I it became 63.16 data source (D-Test) it became 78.16 % D-test  in cycle II, the students’ mean score of content was 50,93 after evaluation in cycle I it became 64.16 and it became 79 in cycle II. The students’ observation was 67.5 % in cycle 1 and it became 82.5 % in cycle 2. It means that Team Assisted Individualization  is one of the effective teaching strategies for the eleventh grade students at SMA Negeri 1 Bontonompo Selatan to improve their writing ability in Argumentation paragraph. Keywords: Team Assited Individualiation, Writing, Argumentation Paragraph, Students


2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
Author(s):  
Phan Thi Tuyet Van

The paper aimed to examine the perceptions and reality of English teachers at community colleges in the Mekong Delta in using action research as a tool for their professional development. The questionnaire and interviews were employed to collect the research data. The results showed that most EFL teachers recognized the significance of doing action research in developing their profession and many difficulties related to it were also reported. Some suggestions were figured out to help teachers conduct more research and identify the benefits of doing action research for their growth and changes in teaching expertise.<p> </p><p><strong> Article visualizations:</strong></p><p><img src="/-counters-/edu_01/0627/a.php" alt="Hit counter" /></p>


1975 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 258-258
Author(s):  
JEANNE H. BLOCK

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