scholarly journals Factor Structure and Validation of the Undergraduate Teaching Faculty Investment Questionnaire

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lizhi Sun ◽  
Hong Zhang ◽  
Jingjing Xu
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Preliminary Test ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Faculty Members ◽  
Investment Model ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching ◽  
Energy Investment ◽  
Teacher Student

Undergraduate education is very important for higher education. Among the factors affecting the quality of undergraduate education, teaching quality is the most important factor. At present, an important issue that affects teaching quality is insufficient teaching investment. An open-ended questionnaire survey was conducted on 62 faculty members and 65 university students in China. Results found that the undergraduate teaching investment of faculty members mainly consists of four parts: workload investment, ability investment, energy investment, and teaching emotional investment. A preliminary test was conducted on 342 faculty members, and the results of an exploratory factor analysis supported the proposed four-dimensional teaching investment model. The test involved 293 faculty members and confirmatory factor analysis showed that the four-dimensional model had a good degree of fit. A further criterion-related test showed that the four-dimensional teaching investment of faculty members has a significant positive correlation with classroom management, clarity of teaching materials, teacher–student interaction, teaching strategies, and skills application, and work engagement. These results show that the proposed four dimensions of teaching investment effectively measure the teaching investment of faculty members, specifically the indicators of teaching investment and that they promote the development of faculty teaching investment research.

Teacher-student interaction and management practices in Pakistani English language classrooms

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 115-134
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ahmad ◽  
Aleem Shakir ◽  
Ali Raza Siddique
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
English Language ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Wait Time ◽  
Student Interaction ◽  
Teacher Talk ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Teacher Student Interaction ◽  
Language Classrooms

Abstract This study aimed to investigate the amount and type of teacher-talk, frequently asked questions and feedback provided by the teacher on learners’ performance in a language classroom. For this purpose, a lecture was recorded from a secondary level English language classroom of a public sector school and interpreted in the light of teacher-student interaction and classroom management model by David Nunan. Results revealed that the maximum amount of time (i.e. 80.1%) was consumed by the teacher which was appropriate. However, certain deviations from classroom management principles were also observed regarding frequently asked questions (i.e. 50% of the total questions were elicitation questions) and the feedback (it was ‘romantic’ in nature). Moreover, wait-time was sufficient but it was of no use to the learners. The study concluded that classroom practices did not conform to the principles therefore, it proposed to ask questions and provide feedback appropriately.

scholarly journals On Redefining the Body Image Satisfaction Questionnaire: A Preliminary Test of Multidimensionality

Healthcare ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 876
Author(s):  
Filipe Rodrigues ◽  
Diogo Monteiro ◽  
Pedro Flores ◽  
Pedro Forte
Keyword(s):  
Body Image ◽  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Factor Model ◽  
Five Factor Model ◽  
Preliminary Test ◽  
The Body ◽  
Body Image Satisfaction ◽  
Satisfaction Questionnaire ◽  
Five Dimensions ◽  
Psychometric Quality

The aim of the present study was to examine the Body Image Satisfaction Questionnaire (BISQ) as a multidimensional instrument, designed to measure individuals’ body image satisfaction. A sample of 790 Portuguese healthy adults (female = 399; male = 391) aged 18 and 49 years old (M = 28.61, SD = 7.97) completed the BISQ. Exploratory factor analysis of the BISQ provided initial psychometric validity for a five-factor model assessing five dimensions of body image, namely, face, upper torso, lower torso, lower body, and overall body appearance. Confirmatory factor analysis supported this five-correlated model, in which a bifactor model provided the best fit to the data, defining a body image satisfaction factor and five specific factors. The BISQ clearly distinguished between various dimensions of body image satisfaction and showed satisfactory psychometric quality through factor analyses. This measure may have a broad application for research and practice, as a tool for capturing individual body image satisfaction.

scholarly journals Measuring Education Quality in Global Rankings: What’s the Likelihood?

2018 ◽  
pp. 12-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Philip G. Altbach ◽  
Ellen Hazelkorn
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Education Quality ◽  
National Context ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Student Ratios ◽  
Cross National ◽  
Academic Rankings

Can the global academic rankings measure teaching quality? The major academic rankings have been adding measures of teaching quality—such as teacher-student ratios. We argue that it is not possible, at least now, to accurately measure teaching quality in a cross-national context. We recommend that the rankings cease measuring something that cannot, at this time, be evaluated.

scholarly journals Positive Classroom Management: Effects of Disruption Management Climate on Behaviour and Satisfaction with Teacher // Clima positivo de gestión del aula: efectos del clima de gestión de la disrupción en el comportamiento y en la satisfacción con el profesorado

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cecilia Simón ◽  
Jesús Alonso-Tapia
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Disruption Management ◽  
Disruptive Behaviour ◽  
School Students ◽  
Study Analyse ◽  
Confirmatory Factor ◽  
Perceived Change

This study analyse the role of disruption management strategies and its effects, in interaction with the classroom motivational climate (CMC), on the decrease of disruptive behaviour and on the perception of teaching quality. For this purpose, the Disruption Management Climate Questionnaire (DMCQ) was developed. A total of 827 Secondary-School students formed the sample. To validate the DMCQ, confirmatory factor and regression analyses were realised. Children’s attribution to teacher’s coping strategies of decrease in disruptive behaviour, and of perceived change in satisfaction with teacher’s work as an index of teaching quality, were used as external criteria. Results support hypotheses related to DMCQ structure, and to its role as predictor of the degree of disruption decrease, but not the hypothesis related to satisfaction with teachers’ work, that depends mainly on CMC. These results underlie the importance of acting on DMCQ and CMC components to favour the teacher practices.

scholarly journals Teaching Quality and Students' EFL Achievements in Ethiopia: Analysis From the Perspective of the Basic Dimensions of Teaching Quality

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (10) ◽  
pp. 1131-1145
Author(s):  
Jean-Baptiste M.B. SANFO ◽  
Inoussa MALGOUBRI
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Language ◽  
Classroom Management ◽  
Hierarchical Linear Modeling ◽  
Student Support ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Linear Modeling ◽  
Cognitive Activation ◽  
High Achieving Students ◽  
Dimensions Of Teaching

Teaching quality is important for students’ English as a Foreign Language (EFL) Achievements. The three basic dimensions of teaching quality (student support, classroom management, and cognitive activation) showed effectiveness in some subjects in developed countries, but there is very little investigation on its effectiveness in developing ones. Using hierarchical linear modeling and re-centered influence function regression, this study investigates the extent to which the three basic dimensions of teaching quality affect students’ EFL achievements and how much the effect varies across achievement distributions in the context of Ethiopia. Findings reveal that classroom management does not affect students’ EFL achievements and this is consistent across achievement distributions. However, cognitive activation positively affects students’ EFL learning achievements and the effect is consistent across the distribution of achievements. Similarly, student support affects students’ EFL achievements positively, but its effect is higher for high-achieving students. Implications of the findings were discussed.

scholarly journals Group Dynamics and Student Participation in a Chinese Setting: Teacher and Observer Perspectives

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Harper ◽  
Hui-ju Chen
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Group Dynamics ◽  
Student Participation ◽  
Chinese Students ◽  
Effective Teacher ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Language Classroom ◽  
Institutional Contexts ◽  
Management Techniques

This article addresses the frequently discussed notion of Chinese students’ supposed reticence and passivity in the English as a Foreign Language classroom. Using the concept of group dynamics as a starting point, it examines teachers’ classroom-management techniques in terms of promoting (or not promoting) active student participation. The study, using a grounded theory of research, analyzed classroom data obtained from class observations and from class filmings and supplemented these data with post-lesson interviews with the four involved teachers. Findings suggested that Chinese students were not necessarily reticent or passive but rather engaged actively when given a learning environment conducive to active engagement. The study pointed to three practical implications for classroom teachers: (1) promoting participation by working toward group cohesion, (2) promoting participation by providing effective teacher-student scaffolding and by providing opportunities for student-student scaffolding, (3) promoting participation by actively replacing textbook materials in order more effectively to offer students adequate support in terms of both language and affect. Acknowledging the fact that different institutional contexts may require different classroom-management techniques, the study calls for further testing of the present findings in other Chinese settings.

scholarly journals Students' Perceptions of Classroom Management Practices of Native and Local Foreign Language Teachers in a Turkish University: A Cultural Perspective

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Şöheyda Göktürk ◽  
Elif Abat ◽  
Özlem Şişmanoğlu Kaymaz
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Management ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Language Teachers ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Perspective ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Teacher Student Relationships ◽  
Teacher Student ◽  
Student Focus ◽  
Main Component

Being closely related to culture, classroom management is a main component of effective teaching. In this study, the perceptions that Turkish university students have of classroom management practices of teachers from their own culture and other cultures (North America and England) are explored. The main purpose of the study is to understand how the cultural backgrounds of students and teachers are reflected in the expectations and practices regarding classroom management. The study was designed as a qualitative instrumental case study. The data were gathered through classroom observations and student focus groups from 53 students from the School of Foreign Languages of a large state university with respect to the classroom management practices of five native and five local teachers. The results revealed that students' perceptions of classroom management practices of local and native teachers differed in terms of classroom discipline, teacher-student relationships, and pedagogical practices. Students' expectations of discipline and teaching styles also varied in relation to their cultural backgrounds. Overall, the findings of this research are important in showing the interaction of classroom management with culture and in providing data for future qualitative research.

Serious Games Applied to Project Management Teaching

2013 ◽  
pp. 1427-1451 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Raabe ◽  
Eliana Santos ◽  
Lauriana Paludo ◽  
Fabiane Benitti
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Undergraduate Education ◽  
Teaching Practices ◽  
Serious Games ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Teaching Experience ◽  
Undergraduate Teaching

The main focus of this chapter is to report studies that explain how to develop serious games and use them in teaching and learning. The focus has been on undergraduate teaching, experience with which the authors detail in this chapter related to the topic of Project Management. This contribution aims to share experiences and also to assess what has been done by proposing a set of recommendations for development and use of serious games in teaching practices in undergraduate education.

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