Counseling Students' Decision Making Regarding Teaching Effectiveness: A Conjoint Analysis

✍ Scribed by Dale Pietrzak; Kelly Duncan; James S. Korcuska

• Book ID: 102287098
• Publisher: American Counseling Association
• Year: 2008
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 158 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0011-0035
• DOI: 10.1002/j.1556-6978.2008.tb00067.x

✦ Synopsis

The authors examined the relative importance of 4 attributes of decision making for student evaluation of teaching effectiveness: perceived knowledge base of the professor, professor's delivery style, course organization, and course workload. Participants were 234 counseling graduate students from 6 midwestern universities in the United States. Data were analyzed with classic conjoint analysis using an additive model with full‐profile method. Results indicated that decisions about teaching effectiveness are complex and based on multiple attributes. There was sufficient variability in the decision‐making process to warrant caution in overgeneralizing results. Implications for faculty development and faculty hiring are considered.