Does Age Affect The Graduate Students’ Perception Toward Their Teachers?
Journal Title: IOSR Journal of Nursing and health Science - Year 2018, Vol 7, Issue 6
Abstract
Background: Teachers play the pivotal role in students’ learning process especially for graduate students who are the nucleus of learning process and in direct contact with their teachers. Objective: To identify the effect of teacher’s age on graduate students’ perception toward their teachers in the Faculty of Nursing. Design: A descriptive research design. Settings: The study was carried out in the faculty of Nursing including all its nine departments namely; Medical-surgical Nursing, Critical Care Nursing, Education, Pediatric Nursing, Obstetric and Gynecology Nursing , psychiatry and Mental health Nursing, Community Health Nursing and Gerontological Nursing. Subjects: All graduate students enrolled in Master & Doctorate Programs in the previously mentioned settings and working either in the faculty or outside the faculty in the previously mentioned departments during a year were included in the study. Their number amounted to 80 students. Tools: Three tools were used: Graduate students' Socio demographic and Scientific Data Structured Interview Schedule and Graduate students’ perception of their teachers’ Professional Teaching Skills Questionnaire. Results: Graduate students’ perception toward their teachers’ professional teaching skills either thoseover and under 60 years were the same with no significant difference. Graduate students’ perception toward their aged teachers as they had more information, able to solve learning and family problems, maintain mutual respect and protect anethical behaviors in classroom than those with teachers under 60 years. On the other hand, angry and sarcastic behaviors were reported by graduate students as a typical feature of teachers over 60 than teachers under 60 yearswith a significant difference. Conclusion: There is no effect of teachers’ age on the perception of graduate students toward teaching process except in some areas of teaching process as maintaining respect, protect an ethical behavior in classroom and presence of angry spontaneously as a teacher quality. Recommendation: Supportive counselling for graduate students andincrease motivation toward teachers’ training especially for those under 60 years.
Authors and Affiliations
HanaaSh. Ibrahim, Shadia Ra. Morsy
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