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Faculty Teaching Behaviors At Three State-Funded Universities, Christa Michelle Bryant
Faculty Teaching Behaviors At Three State-Funded Universities, Christa Michelle Bryant
Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to determine if faculty teaching behaviors differed as a function of demographic variables including academic discipline, years of experience making accommodations, academic rank, and/or gender. College faculty from three universities completed and submitted the Faculty Inventory, a questionnaire containing seven subscales with ten statements per subscale. Faculty members rated the level at which they participate in the teaching behaviors represented by the statements. Results of the data analysis indicated that academic discipline and years of experience making accommodations for students with disabilities significantly influenced teaching behaviors. Academic rank and gender were examined only by …
Best Instructional Practices In Developmental Education: Faculty Perspectives, Calisa A. Pierce
Best Instructional Practices In Developmental Education: Faculty Perspectives, Calisa A. Pierce
Theses, Dissertations and Capstones
This descriptive study employed a survey to examine the perspectives of developmental education faculty members at public community colleges regarding instructional practices that have been identified in the literature as effective for developmental education. The study focused on two major areas related to the instructional practices surveyed: the degree to which faculty members perceive the practices to be effective and the degree to which they report they employ the practices. The entire population of West Virginia full-time faculty members teaching developmental education regularly in public community and technical colleges was surveyed with an 89.6% response rate. In addition, demographic information …