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SEEU Review Volume 5, No. 2, 2009
consistency between what most of the students in one class confirmed to be
motivating and what factors they considered to be mostly positive.
Present Study III: Teacher Questionnaire
A similar questionnaire to the student questionnaire was given to the six
teachers that were observed. Since six classrooms were observed, six
teachers received a questionnaire. The teachers filled in their questionnaires
(See Appendix D, for Teacher Questionnaire) while the students completed
theirs. The purpose of the teacher questionnaire was to see the comparison
between the teachers in evaluating their own teaching and the students’
answers. Although the teachers might be subjective at some points and have
a higher opinion of their teaching, the student questionnaires and certainly
the observation checklist together helped to create a clearer picture of the
actual teaching and to get reliable and valid results.
Findings
In order to obtain results in a more effective way, the rubric was created
and some categories were designed. The rubric created was supposed to
collect and compare the findings from all three sources -- the student
questionnaires, the teacher questionnaires and the observation checklist. The
rubric was divided into four parts and it included the information about:
Learner, Teacher, Materials + Tasks and Classroom Management. For a
better clarification and identification each class was given a letter from A- F,
since the names of the teachers were not displayed anywhere. (See Appendix
E representing the rubric used to compare the findings from each class).
The findings for class A revealed that the students relied on the teacher
for their motivation because the teacher was mentioned as a motivating
factor many times. Students’ responses seemed to indicate that they needed
to have their teacher encourage their self-motivation and goals in the class in
order to learn. Generally, according to the researcher this teacher used most
of the strategies that measure motivation Finally, the students were highly
motivated by the teacher and there was good understanding and mutual trust
between teacher and students. It can be seen that the students, while
generally very positive, also indicated that the researcher’s observation
captured some of their viewpoints too. Since the teacher possessed most of
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