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Stephanie Griffin Blackburn – ProQuest LLC, 2020
This quantitative study examined the moderating role of Medical Laboratory Science (MLS) faculty motivation orientation, expressed as autonomous or controlled motivation, on the relationship between faculty job satisfaction and the faculty's perception of their program director's transformational or transactional leadership behavior. Participants…
Descriptors: Teacher Motivation, Job Satisfaction, Teacher Attitudes, College Faculty
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Etherington, Matthew B. – Australian Journal of Teacher Education, 2011
This study reports on the success of using a problem-based learning approach (PBL) as a pedagogical mode of learning open inquiry science within a traditional four-year undergraduate elementary teacher education program. In 2010, a problem-based learning approach to teaching primary science replaced the traditional content driven syllabus. During…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Science Programs
Tuck Bonner, Natalie Christine – ProQuest LLC, 2009
A teacher's sense of {instructional} efficacy has been considered a critical variable in student academic performance. Researchers Tschannen-Moran and Hoy Woolfolk (2001, p.783) defined teachers' {instructional} efficacy as a teacher's judgment of his or her capabilities to bring about desired outcomes of student engagement and learning, even…
Descriptors: Learner Engagement, Teacher Effectiveness, Science Programs, Self Efficacy