‎Developing a Scale for Creative Teaching Practices of Faculty Members at King Faisal ‎University‎

Abstract

Higher education is considered the center of scientific and social progress, because it qualifies individuals to serve society in various fields of life. Therefore, the faculty member has become the main pillar in building future generations, so his energies should be blown to make his teaching practices innovative, distinctive and creative. This study aims to develop a scale of creative university teaching practices at King Faisal University, and to know the degree of reliance of faculty members on creative teaching practices. Furthermore, it aims to know the relationship between creative teaching practices and some personality variables. To achieve this, 50 items, distributed on four dimensions, were formulated and the construct validity of the scale was tested using the Rasch Model measurement. The study sample consisted of (150) respondents. The findings showed that the faculty members rely on creative teaching practices with a high degree in the whole scale. The findings also showed that there were statistically significant differences based on gender in favor of males, and there were no statistically significant differences based on faculty, academic rank and teaching experience. This study recommends conducting more research to find out the reasons for the different level of creative teaching practices between male and female faculty members, and determine their level of performance.

Factors influencing teachers’ creative teaching: A systematic review

“…From 33 articles, a total of 14 studies focused on China (Chang et al, 2021;Chen & Yuan, 2021;Cheung & Mok, 2018;Chung & Chen, 2018;Deng et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2019;Jin et al, 2021;Ke et al, 2020;Li & Li, 2019;Liu et al, 2020aLiu et al, , 2020bNiu et al, 2017;Wang & Kokotsaki, 2018;Xiong et al, 2020), 3 on Turkey (Atabek, 2020;Akyildiz & Celik, 2020;Kandemir et al, 2019), 2 on Saudi Arabia (Azeem et al, 2019;Mahmoud Alali, 2020), 2 on Europe (NemerAitski & Heinla, 2020;Sliogeriene & Valunaite-Oleskeviciene, 2017), 2 on Indonesian (Dwiningrum et al, 2020;Fitriah, 2018) and 2 on the United States (Anderson et al, 2021;Robinson et al, 2018). In the meanwhile, each research study focused on Korea.…”

“…In terms of publication year, 3 papers were released in 2017 (Cayirdag, 2017;Niu et al, 2017;Sliogeriene & Valunaite-Oleskeviciene, 2017), 7 studies were published in 2018 (Barajas & Frossard, 2018;Cheung & Mok, 2018;Chung & Chen, 2018;Fitriah, 2018;Harris & de Bruin, 2018;Robinson et al, 2018;Wang & Kokotsaki, 2018), 6 studies were published in 2019 (Azeem et al, 2019;Huang et al, 2019;Kandemir et al, 2019;Li & Li, 2019;So & Hu, 2019), 11 studies were published in 2020 (Akyildiz & Celik, 2020;Atabek, 2020;Deng et al, 2020;Dwiningrum et al, 2020;Ke et al, 2020;Liu et al, 2020aLiu et al, , 2020bMahmoud Alali, 2020;NemerAitski & Heinla, 2020;Xiong et al, 2020) and 5 studies were published in 2021 (Abdullah et al, 2021;Amzaleg & Masry-Herzallah, 2021;Anderson et al, 2021;Chang et al, 2021;Chen & Yuan, 2021;Jin et al, 2021). The year 2020 was the most frequent year of publication.…”

“…The year of publication are shown in Figure 3. There were 24 researches that focused on quantitative analysis (Amzaleg & Masry-Herzallah, 2021;Anderson et al, 2021;Atabek, 2020;Azeem et al, 2019;Cayirdag, 2017;Chang et al, 2021;Chen & Yuan, 2021;Cheung & Mok, 2018;Chung & Chen, 2018;Deng et al, 2020;Dwiningrum et al, 2020;Hetherington et al, 2020;Huang et al, 2019;Jin et al, 2021;Kandemir et al, 2019;Ke et al, 2020;Li & Li, 2019;Liu et al, 2020aLiu et al, , 2020bMahmoud Alali, 2020;NemerAitski & Heinla, 2020;Niu et al, 2017;Xiong et al, 2020). In addition, there were five studies in the form of qualitative analysis (Akyildiz & Celik, 2020;Barajas & Frossard, 2018;Robinson et al, 2018;Sliogeriene & Valunaite-Oleskeviciene, 2017;So & Hu, 2019), while four studies used mixed-method approach to ensure that the information obtained was reasonable and useful.…”

Mapping SS1-3 chemistry teachers’ interest, self-efficacy, and literacy in teaching for creativity using simulation

“…However, some studies conducted on the influence of gender on teachers teaching for creativity indicated a significant influence on teachers' teaching for creativity (Alali, 2020;Chang et al, 2021). Their studies showed that male teachers had higher creative teaching mean scores than female teachers.…”

Creative teaching practice among islamic education lecturers: the influence of gender, age and teaching experience

“…This is also in line with Mohd Nor et al ( 2020) who stated that engaging students with the teaching and learning process was one of the class management elements of outstanding lecturers of Islamic education in polytechnics. Creative teaching also required teaching strategies that related lessons to real life and students 'experiences ( (Horng et al 2005;Mahmoud Alali 2020) This allowed students to think and generate their ideas to further increase their involvement in the teaching process.…”