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| Abstract Title: | Learning Assistants' changing perception of teaching |
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| Abstract: | East Carolina University has just implemented a Learning Assistant (LA) program in the past year. LAs are undergraduate student instructors that support group learning in large lecture courses, promoting active and interactive learning. One of the goals of ECUs LA program is to increase the number of science teachers. Students have many barriers to entering the teaching profession, many of them self-imposed. We have given our LAs the Perceptions of Teaching as a Profession (PTaP) survey, which is a new research tool designed to gauge students' perceptions of teaching careers. Specifically, PTaP investigates 9 categories of student perception of the teaching profession. PTaP includes 55 statements that utilize a Likert scale to study these 9 categories and a series of demographic questions. We gave the PTaP to N=28 students in our pedagogy course using a pre-post implementation, and will present preliminary findings. |
| Abstract Type: | Contributed Poster Presentation |
| Session Time: | Poster Session II |
| Poster Number: | B96 |
Author/Organizer Information | |
| Primary Contact: |
Steven F. Wolf East Carolina University Department of Physics 1000 E. 10th Street Howell Science Building C-209 Greenville, NC 27858 |
| Co-Author(s) and Co-Presenter(s) |
Kristine Callis-Duehl East Carolina University Department of Biology Rohin Gawdi East Carolina University Department of Physics Joi P. Walker East Carolina University Department of Chemistry |
