Abstract:
This study, examining university teaching, is aimed to understand more about
university faculty members’ sense of teaching efficacy criteria, with the hope to
provide insights for future strategies in faculty development training program
universities and colleges. In this study, a descriptive and correlational survey is
used. The population of this study was all faculty members at four state
universities in Sistan and Baluchestan Province in Iran. The research instrument
for the study was a questionnaire designated as The Faculty Teaching SelfEfficacy scale (FTSE). The findings showed that the faculty members felt
efficacious in their work in the following criteria: communication skills,
assessment, subject matters, curriculum and instruction, learning environment, and
to implement technology. In other word, faculty members rated their teaching
efficacy in all criteria as good. This study has also found relatively high positive
correlation between criteria of teaching efficacy, and some significant differences
for faculty members with different backgrounds. For example, faculty members
with more than 20 years of experience have had good assessment skill in
comparison with other groups. Faculty members in the education discipline had
higher efficacy than their counterparts in some or even all dimensions of teaching
efficacy.
