College Teachers’ Instructional Practices: Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analyses

• In Event: Improving the Teaching Skills of Educators in the Professions

Abstract

Higher education administrators and researchers are increasingly advocating for the movement from teacher-centered teaching towards student-centered teaching. To achieve this goal, it is important to examine the teaching practices of faculty members. The purpose of this study is: (1) to develop a standardized instrument to measure higher education faculty’s teaching practice; and (2) to provide preliminary validity support for this instrument. We developed The College Teachers’ Instructional Practices (CTIP), a 16-item Likert-scale. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses will be conducted to identify the factor structure and to provide validity support for the instrument. The development of this instrument will provide higher education administrators, faculty, and researchers an assessment tool that is valuable in improving college teaching.

Authors

• Linda Behar Horenstein, University of Florida

• Lian Niu, University of Florida