A survey we conducted a few years ago concluded
that higher education teachers should have the following
competences: interpersonal, methodological, communicative, planning and management, teamwork and innovation. The authors of this work belong to the Institute in charge of the lecturer-training program at our university, which is basically a
technical one. In order to improve our training program, we pose the following research questions: What are the competences that lecturers perceive as les...
A survey we conducted a few years ago concluded
that higher education teachers should have the following
competences: interpersonal, methodological, communicative, planning and management, teamwork and innovation. The authors of this work belong to the Institute in charge of the lecturer-training program at our university, which is basically a
technical one. In order to improve our training program, we pose the following research questions: What are the competences that lecturers perceive as less important. Do our university teachers (engineering teachers) have a different perception of the importance of the different lecturer competences compared to that of other teachers? The results we present in this paper come from a survey that was sent to a total of 15,209 teachers belonging to public universities in our community, and we received a total of 2,347 valid answers. As a result of this study,
we found which competences are those with a significantly bad rating by lecturers in general, and our lecturers in particular. We analyze what measures should be introduce into our teacher training program.
Citation
Perez-Poch, A., Lopez, D. Do differences exist between how Engineering and non-Engineering lecturers perceive the importance of teaching competences?. A: Frontiers in Education Conference. "Frontiers in Education 2016: The Crossroads of Engineering and Business". Erie, Pennsylvania: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016.