Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'

Lecturers in teacher training institute are encouraged to conduct research and are given the opportunities to present the research findings in conferences or to publish them in journals. However, the number of articles produced yearly is not promising compared to the number of lecturers in the...

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Main Author: Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/16621/
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spelling iium-166212014-05-13T09:47:09Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/16621/ Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push' Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail L Education (General) Lecturers in teacher training institute are encouraged to conduct research and are given the opportunities to present the research findings in conferences or to publish them in journals. However, the number of articles produced yearly is not promising compared to the number of lecturers in the institution. This study seeks to examine the factors which affect lecturers’ self-efficacy towards research activities. A case study was conducted in a teacher training institute, involving four lecturers who have more than 20 years of teaching experience. These lecturers were interviewed using semi structured interview. Through phenomenological approach analysis, five salient factors were discovered from these interviews, namely, subject matter expertise, motivation, positive environment, interest and personal strength. This article discusses the nature of these five factors and their implications on the willingness of lecturers to be involved in research activities. This article also provides some measures that can be taken to enhance the lecturers’ self-efficacy towards research. 2011 Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/16621/1/Jeya_Velu.pdf Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail (2011) Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'. In: 6th international conference qualitative research convention 2011, 14-15 Nov 2011, Putrajaya Marriott, Malaysia.
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Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail
Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'
description Lecturers in teacher training institute are encouraged to conduct research and are given the opportunities to present the research findings in conferences or to publish them in journals. However, the number of articles produced yearly is not promising compared to the number of lecturers in the institution. This study seeks to examine the factors which affect lecturers’ self-efficacy towards research activities. A case study was conducted in a teacher training institute, involving four lecturers who have more than 20 years of teaching experience. These lecturers were interviewed using semi structured interview. Through phenomenological approach analysis, five salient factors were discovered from these interviews, namely, subject matter expertise, motivation, positive environment, interest and personal strength. This article discusses the nature of these five factors and their implications on the willingness of lecturers to be involved in research activities. This article also provides some measures that can be taken to enhance the lecturers’ self-efficacy towards research.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail
author_facet Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail
author_sort Sheikh Ahmad, Ismail
title Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'
title_short Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'
title_full Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'
title_fullStr Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'
title_full_unstemmed Lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'Push or not push'
title_sort lecturers' perspective of self-efficacy towards research:'push or not push'
publishDate 2011
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/16621/
http://irep.iium.edu.my/16621/1/Jeya_Velu.pdf
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