Determining University Professors' Practical Teaching Knowledge Constructs in Exemplary Incidents of Teaching

This study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philo...

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Main Author: Hum, Gregory
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Published: McGill University 2009
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spelling ndltd-LACETR-oai-collectionscanada.gc.ca-QMM.956032014-02-13T04:02:36ZDetermining University Professors' Practical Teaching Knowledge Constructs in Exemplary Incidents of TeachingHum, GregoryEducationPsychologyCounsellingThis study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philosophy across the G-13 universities participated. Professors rated Likert scale items with reference to an exemplary incident of teaching they described. Theorized factor constructs, and items, were developed based upon a conceptual framework from a previous study. An exploratory factor analysis and oblique rotation yielded 5 factors/knowledge constructs: Pedagogical Knowledge,Delivery and Management, Content Knowledge, Monitoring and Reflection, and, Knowledge of Students. These factors closely matched 5 of 6 of the theorized factors, and showed strong correspondence with existing literature on teaching knowledge. These factors, along with their inter-correlations form an empirical and objective model of practical university teaching knowledge, demonstrating that exemplary university teaching is informed by a network of inter-related knowledge bases.Cette étude trace les connaissances que les professeurs universitaires utilisent au cours d'Incidents Critiques exemplaire d'enseignement. Cent huit professeurs du G-13 ont participé. Les professeurs ont évalué, en utilisant l'échelle de Likert, un exemple d'incident d'enseignement qu'ils ont décrit. Des items et des facteurs de constructions théorisés ont été développés sur la base d'un cadre conceptuel d'une étude précédente. Une analyse factorielle exploratoire ainsi qu'une rotation oblique ont rapporté 5 facteurs/connaissances de constructions: la connaissance pédagogique, la livraison et gestion, la connaissance du contenu, la surveillance et réf1exion ainsi que la connaissance des étudiants. Ces facteurs étaient fortement liés à 5 des 6 facteurs théorisés, et ont démontré une forte correspondance avec la littérature. Ces facteurs, ainsi que leurs intercorrélations, forment un modèle empirique et objectif de la connaissance d'enseignement universitaire pratique, ce qui démontre qu'un réseau de connaissance inter-reliées est à à la base de l'enseignement universitaire exemplaire . McGill University (Supervisor)2009Electronic Thesis or Dissertationapplication/pdfenTheses scanned by McGill Library.All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated.Master of Arts (Department of Education and Counselling Psychology) http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=95603
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Hum, Gregory
Determining University Professors' Practical Teaching Knowledge Constructs in Exemplary Incidents of Teaching
description This study delineates practical knowledge bases that university professors draw upon during exemplary Critical Incidents of teaching. One hundred and eight full-time, tenure track, university professors from departments of Biology, Chemistry, Economics, Engineering, English, History, Math, and Philosophy across the G-13 universities participated. Professors rated Likert scale items with reference to an exemplary incident of teaching they described. Theorized factor constructs, and items, were developed based upon a conceptual framework from a previous study. An exploratory factor analysis and oblique rotation yielded 5 factors/knowledge constructs: Pedagogical Knowledge,Delivery and Management, Content Knowledge, Monitoring and Reflection, and, Knowledge of Students. These factors closely matched 5 of 6 of the theorized factors, and showed strong correspondence with existing literature on teaching knowledge. These factors, along with their inter-correlations form an empirical and objective model of practical university teaching knowledge, demonstrating that exemplary university teaching is informed by a network of inter-related knowledge bases. === Cette étude trace les connaissances que les professeurs universitaires utilisent au cours d'Incidents Critiques exemplaire d'enseignement. Cent huit professeurs du G-13 ont participé. Les professeurs ont évalué, en utilisant l'échelle de Likert, un exemple d'incident d'enseignement qu'ils ont décrit. Des items et des facteurs de constructions théorisés ont été développés sur la base d'un cadre conceptuel d'une étude précédente. Une analyse factorielle exploratoire ainsi qu'une rotation oblique ont rapporté 5 facteurs/connaissances de constructions: la connaissance pédagogique, la livraison et gestion, la connaissance du contenu, la surveillance et réf1exion ainsi que la connaissance des étudiants. Ces facteurs étaient fortement liés à 5 des 6 facteurs théorisés, et ont démontré une forte correspondance avec la littérature. Ces facteurs, ainsi que leurs intercorrélations, forment un modèle empirique et objectif de la connaissance d'enseignement universitaire pratique, ce qui démontre qu'un réseau de connaissance inter-reliées est à à la base de l'enseignement universitaire exemplaire .
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