Perceptions of Pakistani University Students about Roles of Academics Engaged in Imparting Development Skills: Implications for Faculty Development

The roles of teachers in higher education are measured in terms of skills imparted to students for getting job. These roles could be strengthened through faculty development. The current study investigated perceptions of students about roles of teachers engaged in imparting development skills and di...

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Published in:Bulletin of education and research 2010-12, Vol.32 (2)
Main Authors: Shaukat Ali Raza, Zain Majid, Ahid Zia
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
College faculty
College students
Faculty Development
Learning Processes
Organizational Development
Perceptions
Universities
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Summary:The roles of teachers in higher education are measured in terms of skills imparted to students for getting job. These roles could be strengthened through faculty development. The current study investigated perceptions of students about roles of teachers engaged in imparting development skills and discussed implications of their perceptions for faculty development. Data were collected from 1,100 students of six public and five private universities located in Punjab through a 30-item survey scale which was found reliable at 0.9481 Cronbach's alpha. Principal component factor analysis generated four factors namely intellectual development skills, personal development skills, professional development skills, and social development skills for which mean scores and correlations were calculated. One-sample t-test, independent samples t-test and one-way ANOVA were employed for significance and variance analysis. The study highlighted students' disagreement on the rating scale regarding faculty roles in imparting development skills. Social and personal development skills were in little bit better condition followed by professional development skills, whereas intellectual development skills appeared at the bottom. There is a high degree of need for faculty development at Pakistani universities to help teachers play their instructional, professional and organizational roles in imparting development skills to students as an implication of the study. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
ISSN:0555-7747