A Scale Development Study: Successful University Academicians Perceived by Students

Autor/inn/en	Çelikkol, Ömer; Mertol, Hüseyin; Gazeloglu, Cengiz
Titel	A Scale Development Study: Successful University Academicians Perceived by Students
Quelle	13 (2018) 19, S.473-499 (27 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Çelikkol, Ömer) ORCID (Mertol, Hüseyin) ORCID (Gazeloglu, Cengiz)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1308-2140
Schlagwörter	College Students; Attitude Measures; Student Attitudes; College Faculty; Success; Teacher Characteristics; Test Construction; Test Validity; Test Reliability; Teacher Effectiveness; Foreign Countries; Turkey + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Schülerverhalten; Fakultät; Erfolg; Testaufbau; Testvalidität; Testreliabilität; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Ausland; Türkei
Abstract	Effective communication skills take an important place in terms of the professional and personal qualifications of the teacher. This is because the learning process, in the most general sense, is a communication process itself. In this process, the competence and success of the teacher play the crucial role for a meaningful message exchange. One of the important factors that boost the teacher's influence on the student is his ability to generate healthy communication. The healthy communication of the teacher with the student is required both for high academic achievements and changes in students' attitude behavior. Success emerges as a changeable concept from person to person and from society to society. What does success verbalize, and who are called as successful? What does a successful life look like? It is very difficult to answer all these questions because there are no distinct and basic criteria that may measure the concept of success. Being aware of this difficulty, the purpose of this study is to identify the characteristics of the academic staffs that are considered as the most successful by the university students and to develop a standard scale tool to be used in determining the qualifications to render academic profession successful. In this study, descriptive method has been used. The scale was constituted in the light of 35 experts' opinions and aimed to determine the qualities that render academic profession successful, and then the scale has been reduced to 23 items as a result of preliminary application studies including 75 people. The final scale has been applied to 234 students selected as the sample. The structural validity, internal reliability and applicability of the "Scale for Academicians that university students consider successful" has been shown via Cronbach's alpha value=0.944 and factor analysis (total factor load=66,111%) results. A measuring tool with high validity and reliability, consisting of 23 items and four sub-dimensions, has been achieved as a result of the analyses. It has been identified that the qualifications for successful academicians are visionary leadership, communication skills, classroom management, and democratic attitude. As a result of the analysis, it was determined that the visionary leadership, classroom management and democratic attitude affect communication skills positively. Also, it was concluded that communication skills have a positive effect on the academic profession. However, it is believed that it will be helpful to support the obtained results with larger scale applications. (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01