AUTHOR=Sun Lizhi , Zhang Hong , Xu Jingjing 

TITLE=Factor Structure and Validation of the Undergraduate Teaching Faculty Investment Questionnaire

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 11 - 2020

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.593571

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2020.593571

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=Undergraduate education is very important for higher education.
Among the factors affecting the quality of undergraduate education, teaching quality
is the most important factor. At present, an important reason that affects the teaching
quality is insufficient teaching investment. An open-ended questionnaire survey was
conducted on 62 faculty members and 65 university students in China, and it was
found that undergraduate teaching investment of faculty members mainly consists of
four parts: workload investment, ability investment, energy investment and teaching
emotional investment. A preliminary test was conducted on 342 faculty, and the
results of exploratory factor analysis supported the proposed four-dimensional
teaching investment model. The formal test was completed for 293 faculty. The
confirmatory factor analysis showed that the four-dimensional model has a good
degree of fit. A further criterion-related test showed that the four-dimensional teaching
investment of faculty members has a significant positive correlation with classroom
management, clarity of teaching materials, teacher-student interaction, teaching
strategies and skills application, and work engagement. The research results shows
that the four dimensions of teaching investment can effectively measure the teaching
investment of faculty members, specify the indicators of teaching investment, and
promote the development of faculty teaching investment research.