Higher Education Research and Development, Volume (39), No (2), Year (2019-10) , Pages (302-317)

Title : ( Student perceptions of effective lecturers: the need to recognise the role of ethnicity and choice of discipline )

Authors: Farzad Radmehr , Winnie Laban , John Overton , Leon Bakker ,

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Abstract

University student perceptions of effective teaching have been explored in previous studies, however, research is lacking regarding how perceptions of teaching efficacy vary by ethnicity and programme of study. In this study, student perceptions of effective teaching are explored between STEM -Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics- and non-STEM major students of four ethnic groups: Europeans, Asians, Māori, and Pasifika. The study sample comprised 2073 students from a New Zealand university who completed a survey in 2016. Firstly, the findings indicated that Non-STEM major students were more likely to report cultural knowledgeable as an important characteristic compared to STEM major students. Secondly, the distribution referring to content knowledgeable, creative, culturally knowledgeable, and passionate as characteristics of effective teaching was different between the four ethnic groups. In detail, Europeans and Māori were more likely to refer to content knowledgeable than Pasifika students, while Pasifika students were more likely to refer to culturally knowledgeable compared to Europeans. Furthermore, the highest percentage of referring to creative as a characteristic of effective teaching was for Asians, and the highest percentage of referring to Passionate was for Māori students. The findings imply that lecturers should be well informed about these differences to be able to improve the quality of their teaching and student learning.

Keywords

, Effective teaching, student perceptions, Ethnicity, STEM, Pasifika, Māori
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author = {Radmehr, Farzad and Winnie Laban and John Overton and Leon Bakker},
title = {Student perceptions of effective lecturers: the need to recognise the role of ethnicity and choice of discipline},
journal = {Higher Education Research and Development},
year = {2019},
volume = {39},
number = {2},
month = {October},
issn = {0729-4360},
pages = {302--317},
numpages = {15},
keywords = {Effective teaching- student perceptions- Ethnicity- STEM- Pasifika- Māori},
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%T Student perceptions of effective lecturers: the need to recognise the role of ethnicity and choice of discipline
%A Radmehr, Farzad
%A Winnie Laban
%A John Overton
%A Leon Bakker
%J Higher Education Research and Development
%@ 0729-4360
%D 2019

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