dc.contributor.author	Allison-Jones, Lisa L.	en
dc.contributor.committeechair	Hirt, Joan B.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Olsen, Deborah	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Janosik, Steven M.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Creamer, Donald G.	en
dc.contributor.committeemember	Ingalls, Jane	en
dc.contributor.department	Educational Leadership and Policy Studies	en
dc.date.accessioned	2014-03-14T20:17:04Z	en
dc.date.adate	2002-10-08	en
dc.date.available	2014-03-14T20:17:04Z	en
dc.date.issued	2002-09-09	en
dc.date.rdate	2003-10-08	en
dc.date.sdate	2002-10-04	en
dc.description.abstract	The effectiveness of full-time and part-time faculty is an area of major interest in education, especially in light of the dramatic rise of part-time faculty on the nation's campuses. In the period between 1976 and 1994, the use of full-time faculty increased by 21% while the use of part-time faculty increased by 91% (Clery, 1998). The quality of instruction is the primary concern surrounding the use of part-time faculty (Clery, 1998; Fedler, 1989; Gappa & Leslie, 1997; Leslie, 1998; Mellander & Mellander, 1999; Spangler, 1990). One way of assessing quality of education is by assessing teacher effectiveness. The purpose of this study was to compare the teaching effectiveness of part-time and full-time clinical nursing faculty. To achieve this, the Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory (NCTEI) (Knox & Mogan, 1985) was adapted for use in measuring student and faculty perceptions of part-time faculty and of full-time faculty. The NCTEI was designed to measure five categories important in clinical nursing instruction: teaching ability, nursing competence, evaluation, interpersonal relationships, and personality traits. The sample included two groups: clinical nursing students in Associate Degree Nursing programs at schools in a mid-Atlantic state and the part-time and full-time faculty who taught those students. There were three components of the study. First students completed questionnaires about the effectiveness of their part-time and full-time clinical nursing faculty. Second, part-time and full-time clinical nursing faculty completed questionnaires about their perceptions of their own effectiveness. Finally, results were compared with the percentage of first-time pass rates on the National Council Licensing Exam for Registered Nurses (NCLEX-RN). Results of the study indicate that students rank part-time faculty as significantly less effective than full-time faculty on each of the five categories measured by the NCTEI and on the overall scale. These results are supported by the finding that there is no significant difference in the ways that students rate the effectiveness of teachers and the self-ratings of the teachers themselves.	en
dc.description.degree	Ph. D.	en
dc.identifier.other	etd-10042002-183948	en
dc.identifier.sourceurl	http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-10042002-183948/	en
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10919/29188	en
dc.publisher	Virginia Tech	en
dc.relation.haspart	10Vitae.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	08References.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	06Results.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	07Discussion.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	01Titlepage.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	09Appendicies.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	03Introduction.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	05Methodology.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	04LiteratureReview.pdf	en
dc.relation.haspart	02Front_Matter.pdf	en
dc.rights	In Copyright	en
dc.rights.uri	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/	en
dc.subject	teaching ability	en
dc.subject	quality of instruction	en
dc.subject	nursing students	en
dc.subject	community college	en
dc.subject	faculty	en
dc.title	Student and Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness of Full-time and Part-time Associate Degree Nursing Faculty, Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory	en
dc.type	Dissertation	en
thesis.degree.discipline	Educational Leadership and Policy Studies	en
thesis.degree.grantor	Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University	en
thesis.degree.level	doctoral	en
thesis.degree.name	Ph. D.	en

Student and Faculty Perceptions of Teaching Effectiveness of Full-time and Part-time Associate Degree Nursing Faculty, Nursing Clinical Teacher Effectiveness Inventory

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