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An additional cause of student dissatisfaction with teaching was that, financially lucrative opportunities, when available, often took priority over teaching for some instructors.
For some instructors who currently keep few records related to their teaching beyond lecture slides and notes, lesson plans are a first step toward more purposefully planned class time.
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When inviting students to ask questions, for example, some instructors walked around the room to be more available for questions, others designed activities with the intention of eliciting questions from students, and still others remained silent to create space for students to ask questions.
For example, some instructors provided their students with a variety of modalities and tools for learning (e.g., podcasts, supplementary readings, online lecture notes) that other students might not have had access to in other courses or with other instructors.
For polling, some instructors use smartphone-based polling, a discussion board called Yammer, or old-fashioned voting cards.
In explaining the purpose of the activities, for example, some instructors chose to directly tell students about the purpose of the activities (Michelle, Betsy, Timothy, Esther, Tracey) while others engaged students in reflection and discussion to help them discover the purpose of the activities (Daniel).
For some biology instructors, this may have seemed to be an odd statement.
There was also a strong effect of instructor and a significant treatment × instructor interaction, with some instructors achieving better student scores consistently within a certain treatment, which was not the same for each instructor.
For example, some biology instructors worry that too much disciplinary material would have to be sacrificed to accommodate the greater inclusion of mathematics (Gross, 2004), or that instruction in mathematical skills, in addition to the typical workload, could become overwhelming for the students (Brent, 2004).
Explicit training for PP is essential for students and even for instructors.
H4: Teaching experience, gender, and age of the instructors will be correlated with student ratings of these instructors for some of the descriptors in this study (Bos et al., 1980 ; Baird, 1987 ; Feldman, 1993 ; Basow, 1995 ; Greenwald and Gillmore, 1997 ; Centra and Gaubatz, 2000 ; Dunkin, 2002 ; Clayson et al., 2006 ; Zabaleta, 2007 ).
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