The teaching behavioural attributes of faculty members of the college of business, entrepreneurship and accountancy: A comparative students evaluation

Every educational institution aims at improving the quality of education it offers to its clientele. It designs methods and processes to ensure that its faculty members are equipped with the necessary weapons in delivering this quality education to the studentry. The University or any College institutes a measure like the teacher's evaluation which is a formal process a school uses to review and rate teachers’ performance and effectiveness in the classroom. Ideally, the findings from these evaluations are used to provide feedback to teachers and guide their professional development and enhancement, if necessary. The teacher-evaluation system is a response to the laws that govern educational institutions generally designed and operated at the University level, to determine the areas of the teaching learning process that need to be improved and enhanced. This undertaking is designed to show the comparative evaluation of students of the teaching behavioural attributes of the faculty members of the College of Business, Entrepreneurship and Accountancy covering five areas of evaluation, to wit: the mastery of the subject matter, the communication skills of the teacher in the delivery of the lesson, his classroom management, the teaching and evaluative techniques utilized by the faculty member and the teacher traits. Since this study attempted to ascertain and compare the teaching behavioural attributes of tenured and non-tenured faculty members of the College as evaluated by the students, the descriptive correlational method of research was used. Respondents of the study were the senior students of all the program offerings of the College. The descriptive statistics used to summarize the profile of the respondents were percentages, frequency counts and mean and in the analysis and interpretation of the evaluation of the student-respondents as regards the teaching behavioural attributes of the faculty members, the weighted mean, the chi-square and Pearson r were used. A questionnaire was utilized to gather information from the respondents which consisted of two parts: Part 1 consisted of the profile of the respondents and Part II of the questionnaire proper consisted of the respondents’ evaluation on the different areas of evaluation on teaching behavioural attributes of the faculty members. This modified data gathering tool was patterned from the Teachers Behavioral Inventory tool used by the University of Cagayan Valley. With the conduct of this study, results have led to the conclusion that the profiles of the respondents along sex, age and program have a significant effect on the evaluation of the respondents on the different dimensions of the teaching behavioural attributes of both the tenured and the non-tenured faculty members. However, some areas or dimensions of the teaching behavioural attributes of both the tenured and non-tenured faculty members have not been significantly affected by the profiles of the respondents. Based from the findings of this study, the researcher strongly recommends that the faculty members should keep themselves abreast with the newest trends and issues that have relation with their subject matter so as to enrich their subject discussion in the class and provide the students a wider horizon of understanding the importance of the theories taught in the class with the realities of life, necessary preparations of their subject matter prior to their scheduled class in order to prepare themselves in the excellent or at least a very satisfactory delivery of their subject matter and refrain from bringing or carrying with them their textbooks in the class which would include the provision of the visual and teaching materials in aiding them for the students’ easy assimilation of the lesson while utilizing a variety of strategies in the delivery of the subject lesson particularly those that encourage students’ participation or involvement to pave the way for the students to express their ideas and develop in them self-confidence and boost their self-esteem and lastly, for the administration through the department chair or the dean should monitor regularly the attendance of the faculty members in their classes to ensure that class time is properly utilized by the faculty members.