The questionnaire for TEACHERS of higher education

 

DEAR TEACHERS,

Aiming to find out your attitudes to university teachers’ educational competences, we would kindly request you to answer the following questions.  The questionnaire is anonymous; the acquired data will be used for the improvement of teachers’ educational competences.

 

 

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Country ✪

Your institution: ✪

Your education by field of science: ✪

Field of science where you are working:  ✪

Your position: ✪

Pedagogical experience: ✪

Your age: ✪

You are: ✪

Study level:  ✪

1. In your opinion, what does the success of pedagogical work depend on? Choose 5 most important components. ✪

2. List 3 qualities of a good teacher in order of priority: ✪

3. List 3 most important characteristics of a quality lecture in order of priority:  ✪

4. Assess the teacher’s educational competences in order of significance: ✪

Insignificant Significant Very significant
Ability to perceive oneself as a free, responsible person
Ability to adequately assess personal qualities and confidently improve them
Ability to recognize, manage and adequately express one’s emotions and feelings
Ability to follow moral attitudes and foresee the possible consequences of one’s actions as well as to act responsibly
Ability to think positively, accept the challenges and changes of life, foresee the possible choices, and to overcome difficulties
Ability to flexibly adapt to the new educational challenges
Ability to raise new ideas and implement them
Ability to clearly and accurately express one’s ideas and feelings by maintaining eye contact, selecting appropriate words, tone, mimicry, and thus managing the group atmosphere
Ability to speak persuasively (one’s belief in the subject)
Ability to use humour in order to create appropriate atmosphere in the group
Ability to listen to and hear other opinions
Ability to socialize and cooperate at a professional level
Ability to cooperate in projecting and improving educational activity
Ability to work in a team
Ability to responsibly and actively participate in the activity of the community
Ability to orient oneself in the contemporary changes of education
Ability to continuously improve one’s educational competences
Ability to take part in the international realm of education (Erasmus exchange programmes, conferences)
Ability to participate in international projects
Ability to participate in international research
Ability to be one to new ideas, experience and to encourage the openness of others
Ability to encourage students to learn lifelong
Ability to assess the current situation (its advantages, drawbacks, possibilities and threats)
Ability to develop a long-term strategy (a cycle of lectures / semester)
Ability to develop a short-term strategy (lecture/seminar)
Ability to raise specific, measurable and attainable goals of education
Ability to plan educational processes in order to attain the set goals
Ability to inform students (in the first lecture) about the goals of the subject, its intended results, the outline of the term
Ability to create a safe, favourable learning environment providing equal learning conditions and opportunities
Ability to adequately distribute the workload and tempo of learning the subject
Ability to rationally and effectively use the contact time in lectures
Ability to set up and alternate group work and individual tasks
Ability to develop students’ organizational competencies of self-dependent learning
Ability to develop joint responsibility for implementing individual and group goals as well as for intergroup support
Ability to maintain the smooth progress of educational processes
Ability to direct the students’ efforts in the target direction
Ability to constructively solve the emerging conflicts by making quality decisions as well as to teach others to solve them
Ability to give students individual consultations (during the contact hours, by email or at the individually arranged time)
Ability to introduce students to the assessment order, assessment methods and criteria in advance (in the first lectures)
Ability to assess students objectively, on the basis of pre-discussed criteria
Ability to assess the external factors which changed the educational process, even though were not included in the initial plan
Ability to apply different forms of assessment
Ability to employ different modern educational resources
Ability to create new teaching resources
Ability to employ traditional teaching/learning methods
Ability to employ active methods of education
Ability to develop students’ creativity and promote their initiative
Ability to set up problem-based learning
Ability to develop critical thinking skills
Ability to educate students with special needs
Ability to relate theoretical material with its practical application in a reasoned way
Ability to encourage students to discuss, analyze, raise problem-based questions, generate ideas

5. Assess the teacher’s educational competences in order of significance (only one box can be marked in each line):  ✪

CrucialSignificant Insignificant
Personal competence
Communicative competence
Social competence
Lifelong learning competence
Methodological competence
Planning competence
Organizational competence
Management competence
Assessment competence

6. How often have you improved your educational competences in the past 3 years:  ✪

Never 1-2 times3-4 times 5 and more
At national qualification development events
At foreign qualification development events
Participation in international projects
International research conducted individually
International research conducted with a group of researchers
Participation in international exchange programmes (Erasmus, etc.)

7. Which educational competences would you like to improve most of all?  ✪

8. What are the necessary conditions for university teachers to develop the highest educational competences?

9. If you would like to add something, please lay out all your comments: