scholarly journals What are University Professors’ Motivations? A Realistic Approach to Self-perception of Spanish University Professors’ Professional Development

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Espejo-Antúnez ◽  
Mario Corrales-Serrano ◽  
Francisco Zamora-Polo ◽  
Miguel González-Velasco ◽  
Maria de los Ángeles Cardero-Durán
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Experience ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
Sphericity Test ◽  
Internal Goods ◽  
Good Internal Consistency ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Spanish Public Universities ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
The University

Background: The university must take on the challenges that arise at all levels. Within this mechanism, university professors play an important role as facilitators of knowledge. Aim: To analyse the motivations that influence the professional performance of Spanish university professors. Methods: 102 university professors from 9 Spanish public universities participated in the study. [Male: 54 (52.9%); Female: 48 (47.1%)]. A questionnaire of 22 closed-ended Likert-type questions was designed, scoring from 0-10 (do not agree at all, strongly agree). Results: The questionnaire, finally composed of 17 items, showed good internal consistency. (Cronbach's alpha=0.858). The validity analysis showed a value of 0.822 (>0.5) ) in the sample adequacy measure KMO (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) and Bartlett's sphericity test (p<0.0001). The exploratory factor analysis showed a clustering in 4 factors (2 for internal goods and 2 for external goods), explaining 64.33% of the total variance. Comparisons between each factor scores by gender (male and female) showed differences statistically significant by gender for factor F1 (higher for females) and F2 (higher for males). Finally, Q1 and Q13 showed a statistically significant correlation (p≤0.05) with years of teaching experience. Conclusions: The motivations of Spanish university professors seem to be associated with the age and gender of the teacher.

scholarly journals What Are University Professors’ Motivations? A Realistic Approach to Self-Perception of a Group of Spanish University Professors Belonging to the G-9 Group of Universities

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (15) ◽  
pp. 7976
Author(s):  
Luis Espejo-Antúnez ◽  
Mario Corrales-Serrano ◽  
Francisco Zamora-Polo ◽  
Miguel González-Velasco ◽  
María de los Ángeles Cardero-Durán
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Experience ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
A Value ◽  
Sphericity Test ◽  
Final Questionnaire ◽  
Good Internal Consistency ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Spanish Public Universities ◽  
Strongly Agree

Universities face challenges on a number of levels. In this scenario, university professors play an important role as facilitators of knowledge. The main objective of this study was to analyse the motivations that influence the professional performance in a sample of 102 university professors from nine Spanish public universities (Male: 54 (52.9%); Female: 48 (47.1%)). For this purpose, a questionnaire of 22 closed-ended Likert-type questions was designed, in which scores ranged from 0 to 10 (do not agree at all, strongly agree). Following analysis, the final questionnaire was composed of 17 items, and showed good internal consistency (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.858). The validity analysis showed a value of 0.822 (>0.5) in the sample adequacy measure of Kaiser–Meyer–Olkin and Bartlett’s sphericity test (p < 0.0001). The exploratory factor analysis showed a clustering in four factors (two for intrinsic motivations and two for extrinsic motivations), explaining 64.33% of the total variance. Comparisons between each factor score by gender (male and female) showed statistically significant differences for factor F1 (higher for females) and F2 (higher for males). Finally, Q1 and Q13 showed a statistically significant correlation (p ≤ 0.05) with years of teaching experience. The motivations of Spanish university professors appear to be associated with the age and gender of the teacher.

scholarly journals The Impact of Level of Education, Teaching Experience and Gender on Professionalism and Performance: The Case Study of Universitas Muhammadiyah Palembang’s Academic Teaching Staffs

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 99
Author(s):  
Muhammad Idris ◽  
R. A. Lindrayeni
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Doctoral Degree ◽  
Education Level ◽  
Least Square ◽  
Study Program ◽  
Academic Teaching ◽  
And Performance ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
The Impact

This study investigates the impact of education level, teaching experience and gender on professionalism and performance of academic teaching staffs at the University of Muhammadiyah Palembang. In 2017, there are 431 academic teaching staffs across seven faculties and one graduate study program as the population study and the sample size is 355 respondents. This study uses survey research method to collect the data using closed-ended questionnairre. Professionalism is measured using the sertification status and the performance is measured using the number of publication during the last three years. Education level is measured using the degree qualification such as master degree, doctoral degree and professorship. Teaching experience is measured using the length of teaching experience and the gender is measured as sex status such as male and female academic teaching staffs. The data is analysed using ordinary least square (OLS). The result shows that there is a significant impact of education level, teaching experience and gender on professionalism and performance of academic teaching staffs.

scholarly journals Formación Continua De Los Docentes Universitarios: Formación Investigativa

2017 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Concepción Elizabeth Marcillo García ◽  
Jimmy Alexandre Vásquez Zavala
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Education ◽  
Personal Development ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Research Activity ◽  
Continuous Training ◽  
University Professors ◽  
Professional Performance ◽  
University Teachers ◽  
The University ◽  
Formación Docente

La universidad constituye el espacio de generación de conocimientos y el referente de desarrollo de la ciencia y la tecnología. En tales circunstancias, la responsabilidad de que la universidad cumpla con su misión se sustenta, en gran medida, en el desempeño de los docentes que ejercen la cátedra universitaria. Su formación es el soporte de la innovación, transformación y producción de los conocimientos. En este sentido, la investigación tuvo como objeto de estudio la formación continua del docente, precisando como campo la formación investigativa del docente universitario de los docentes de la Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí. Se planteó como objetivo profundizar en los sustentos que sirvieron de base en la fundamentación de las categorías analizadas. Para el desarrollo de este documento, se consideró el método de investigación documental. Se concluyó  que el proceso de formación continua  encuentra  sustentos  en  Declaraciones  Universales  y  legales,  su  estudio  se  ha realizado desde diferentes aristas, siendo caracterizada por la actualización, innovación, producción y transformación, así como el desarrollo personal, el desarrollo social y el desempeño profesional. Por otra parte, la investigación dejó  evidenciado los pobres aportes en los estudios sobre la formación investigativa de los profesores en este nivel.    Palabras claves: Desempeño docente, docente universitario, formación continua, formación docente, formación docente investigativa  Continuous training of university teachers: research activity   Abstract The university is a place for generating knowledge and the benchmark of the development of science and technology. In such circumstances, the responsibility that the university fulfills its  Formación continua de los docentes universitarios www.itsup.edu.ec/myjournal mission lies largely on the performance of teachers engaged in the university staff. Their formation is a support for the    innovation, transformation and production of knowledge. In this sense, the research object was to study the continuing formation of professors, stating as the field of research the researching formation of university professors in “ Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí, Ecuador. The objective was to deepen in the aspects that were the basis of the foundation of the categories analyzed. For the development of this work, the method of documentary research was considered. We concluded that the process of continuing education is found The Universal Statement Legal; their study was conducted from different angles, being  characterized  by  the  updating,  innovation,  production  and  processing,  as  well  as personal development, social development and professional performance. Moreover, the research showed clearly, that there is a poor contribution in the professor formation at this level.  Keywords: professor performance, university teaching, continuing education, professor formation, professor formation research

A Study on Knowledge, Attitude, Awareness and Practice About HIV/AIDS among different age group of Karachi, Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-333
Author(s):  
Safia Mehmood ◽  
Sheema Zia ◽  
Nida Aziz ◽  
Omama Sajid
Keyword(s):  
Hiv Transmission ◽  
Age Groups ◽  
World Population ◽  
Major Barrier ◽  
Initial Stage ◽  
Awareness Programs ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Strongly Agree ◽  
High Level ◽  
Lack Of Knowledge

The AIDS is one of the most complicated health problems of the 21st century and it threatens the world population. AIDS spread at an alarming rate. This was a descriptive study to determine the knowledge, awareness, and practice about HIV among different age groups. The study carried out in Karachi, Pakistan during the period of January 2016-april 2016, in which 82 peoples are participated; 65 peoples having age in between 18-30, people’s lies in 31-40 years, while only 4 peoples having age above 40. From which 91% peoples thought HIV is dangerous virus and 51% peoples having misconception that it cause AIDS on initial stage and does not have any effect on CD4+. Majority of peoples aware about transmission of AIDS through intercourse, and during pregnancy. But the study show the high level of misbelieve also in mode of transmission that HIV transmit through sweat, saliva etc. Majority of the peoples have knowledge that HIV-1 is the most common type found worldwide. Also large number of peoples have knowledge that HIV weak immune system by destroying CD4+ and require long exposure to progress AIDS. Less than 15% of peoples strongly agree that AIDS is common in women. This misconception reflex the lack of knowledge and awareness in the HIV transmission and gender relation. Also majority of peoples thought that lack of knowledge is major barrier in the proper cure of disease. So increasing knowledge by awareness programs; sexual prevention; by starting national testing resources and curing poverty will cured AIDS in Pakistan. Newly drugs are introduced which can stop the progression of AIDS.

Outlaws and Misfits: The Identities of Modernist Criticism

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 337-356
Author(s):  
Ben Knights
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Industrial Capitalism ◽  
Emotional Maturity ◽  
English Departments ◽  
Emotional Autonomy ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Implicit Identity ◽  
The University ◽  
Cultural Positioning

The images of the writer as exile and outlaw were central to modernism's cultural positioning. As the Scrutiny circle's ‘literary criticism’ became the dominant way of reading in the University English departments and then in the grammar-schools, it took over these outsider images as models for the apprentice-critic. English pedagogy offered students not only an approach to texts, but an implicit identity and affective stance, which combined alert resistance to the pervasive effects of mechanised society with a rhetoric of emotional ‘maturity’, belied by a chilly judgementalism and gender anxiety. In exchanges over the close reading of intransigent, difficult texts, criticism's seminars sought a stimulus to develop the emotional autonomy of its participants against the ‘stock response’ promulgated by industrial capitalism. But refusal to reflect on its own method meant such pedagogy remained unconscious of the imitative pressures that its own reading was placing on its participants.

Engaging Student Mothers Creatively: Animated Stories of Navigating University, Inner City, and Home Worlds

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 103-114
Author(s):  
Lise Kouri ◽  
Tania Guertin ◽  
Angel Shingoose
Keyword(s):  
Inner City ◽  
Community Engagement ◽  
Lived Experience ◽  
Graphic Narrative ◽  
Student Mothers ◽  
Education Outcomes ◽  
The Social ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The University ◽  
Animated Graphic

The article discusses a collaborative project undertaken in Saskatoon by Community Engagement and Outreach office at the University of Saskatchewan in partnership with undergraduate student mothers with lived experience of poverty. The results of the project were presented as an animated graphic narrative that seeks to make space for an under-represented student subpopulation, tracing strategies of survival among university, inner city and home worlds. The innovative animation format is intended to share with all citizens how community supports can be used to claim fairer health and education outcomes within system forces at play in society. This article discusses the project process, including the background stories of the students. The entire project, based at the University of Saskatchewan, Community Engagement and Outreach office at Station 20 West, in Saskatoon’s inner city, explores complex intersections of racialization, poverty and gender for the purpose of cultivating empathy and deeper understanding within the university to better support inner city students. amplifying community voices and emphasizing the social determinants of health in Saskatoon through animated stories.

Case Study: The Southern Oral History Program

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacquelyn Dowd Hall ◽  
Kathryn Nasstrom
Keyword(s):  
Oral History ◽  
American South ◽  
New Era ◽  
Chapel Hill ◽  
Integral Role ◽  
The American South ◽  
And Gender ◽  
History Department ◽  
The University

A case study of the southern oral history program is the essence of this chapter. From its start in 1973 until 1999, the Southern Oral History Program (SOHP) was housed by the history department at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC), rather than in the library or archives, where so many other oral history programs emerged. The SOHP is now part of UNC's Center for the Study of the American South, but it continues to play an integral role in the department of history. Concentrating on U.S. southern racial, labor, and gender issues, the program offers oral history courses and uses interviews to produce works of scholarship, such as the prize-winning book Like a Family: The Making of a Southern Cotton Mill World. The folks at the Institute for Southern Studies tried to combine activism with analysis, trying to figure out how to take the spirit of the movement into a new era.

Longitudinal and Gender Measurement Invariance of the Gratitude Questionnaire in Chinese Adolescents

2021 ◽  
pp. 003329412110360
Author(s):  
Qingsong Tan ◽  
Jilin Zou ◽  
Feng Kong
Keyword(s):  
Measurement Invariance ◽  
Time Interval ◽  
Longitudinal Measurement Invariance ◽  
Multiple Group ◽  
Longitudinal Measurement ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Adolescent Sample ◽  
Good Internal Consistency ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Mean Differences

The 5-item Gratitude Questionnaire (GQ-5) is one of the most commonly used instruments to measure dispositional gratitude in adolescents. The purpose of this study was to verify the longitudinal measurement invariance (LMI) and gender measurement invariance (GMI) of the GQ-5 that was administered to an adolescent sample twice over the course of 18 months ( N = 669). Single-group confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) was adopted to examine the LMI and multiple-group CFA was conducted to assess the GMI. The results showed that the GQ-5 had strong invariance (i.e., equality of factor patterns, loadings, and intercepts) across time and gender. Validation of latent factor mean differences showed that females had higher gratitude scores than males. In addition, the GQ-5 exhibited good internal consistency indices across time and a moderate stability coefficient was also found across an 18-month time interval in adolescents. In summary, our study showed that LMI and GMI of the GQ-5 are satisfactory and the GQ-5 is a reliable instrument for measuring gratitude in adolescents.

scholarly journals Technology-enhanced Learning for Promoting Technical and Social Competences in Hydrological Science

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Feliciana Licciardello ◽  
Simona Consoli ◽  
Giuseppe Cirelli ◽  
Carlos Castillo ◽  
Elvira Fernández-Ahumada ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Information Systems ◽  
English Language ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Geographical Information ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Technical Knowledge ◽  
Academic Calendar ◽  
The University ◽  
Social Competences ◽  
Enhanced Learning

AbstractThis paper explains and analyses a virtual gamification experience developed by a teaching group from the University of Catania (Italy) and the University of Cordoba (Spain). A competition based on professional tasks about hydrological planning was implemented in two subjects on Hydrological Sciences. The teaching experience was designed to improve the acquisition of technical knowledge and skills needed for hydrological studies, promote the management of ICT and increase international cooperation between different universities; all aimed at making students more employable. The experience is transferable to different academic levels. Following the philosophy of soccer leagues, the students solved and presented the exercise by teams of two students. Through videoconference, the presentation and the explanation were done so the fans in each country supported their teams. The students found it a very challenging experience but at the same time, some of them were aware of their needs of improving technical knowledge, particularly Geographical Information Systems, and English language skills. Updating of tools and the schedule within the different academic calendar were their main organization handicaps. The main outcome of the presented experience is that social energy and enthusiasm associated to popular activities such as soccer led to improve the interest and the motivation of the students in challenging technical contents as well as teamwork and language transversal competences.

University students' voices on sexual and gender diversity, their relationship with coeducation and pedagogical innovation: a comparative study at the University of Madeira (Portugal) and the Federal University of Sergipe (Brasil)

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
José Paulo Gomes Brazão ◽  
Anselmo Lima de Oliveira ◽  
Alfrancio Ferreira Dias
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Gender Diversity ◽  
Sexual Diversity ◽  
Pedagogical Innovation ◽  
Organizational Contexts ◽  
Political Act ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Social Agendas ◽  
The University

The concepts of gender and sex have been considered in recent literature as elements of power, under the circumstance of contemporary floating constructions. In the field of Education, a “deconstructed”, non-normative look is needed as a political act on issues of sexual diversity and gender. The curriculum as a culture can and must take a Queer view at school. In this research we intend to make a comparative study on sexual and gender diversity in the academic environment, listening to the voices of students from the University of Madeira and the Federal University of Sergipe. In this way, we emphasize coeducation in the construction of inclusive environments and their contribution in the field of pedagogical innovation. The discussion of these themes in the academy is fundamental for the conceptual renewal and the organizational contexts of the practice of pedagogy. It also contributes to important changes in social agendas.

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