The Perceptions of University Teachers About Commonly Used Teaching Practices and Effective Methods
Abstract
Teaching is an art of transferring knowledge, information and skills from one person to another. It is mandatory for teachers to use variety of instructional strategies to meet the needs of students and high-quality Education. However, most of the institutes in Pakistan use a limited range of methods for instructions. There is an urgent need to evaluate the current practices of Instruction adopted by most of the teachers in general institutes. The core purpose of this study was to scrutinize the perception of university teachers concerning the usage and effectiveness of teaching practices in terms of particular strategies, methods and casual activities. A case study methodology was adopted to attain the objectives of the study. Hence, Bahauddin Zakariya University Multan was carefully chosen as a case. Approximately, 619 teachers were teaching at Bahauddin Zakariya University and selected as population. The researcher combined eight of the faculties and divided into four sections. Total 45 departments were nominated using Simple random sampling. Furthermore, 395 teachers were chosen through lottery method of simple random sampling. Data was collected through Questionnaire and the questionnaire reliability was also computed through Cronbach's Alpha Model (e.g.,0.96). The value explicitly indicated the scale’s consistency and reliability. Data was composed in tables to be analyzed, comparisons were made and interpreted according to the to the study objectives. For the interpretation of Questionnaire data descriptive statistics i.e., Mean and SD were applied, and thematic analysis was used for open-ended research question responses. According to the study findings, lecture method, project method, demonstration method, problem-solving method, discussion, brainstorming and quiz were described as occasionally used teaching practices at universities. While other selected methods/strategies/activities were rarely used. Likewise, the final conclusion of the research also specified teachers’ opinion regarding the selected teaching practices (methods/strategies/activities) that they were effective mainly due to their own observations at university. The study also recommended that teaching practices must be evaluated occasionally for the improvement of teachers’ teaching practices, which is vital for quality education and teaching-learning process.
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