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Faculty Beliefs, Intentions, and Actions in Occupational Therapy Education

Kehres, Edward C.

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2007, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Ohio University, Higher Education (Education).

This study of 236 full-time Occupational Therapy faculty members from accredited OT programs in the United States identified beliefs, intentions, and actions in a classroom setting using the Teacher Perspectives Inventory. Occupational Therapy educators reported the highest mean intention and action scores in the Apprenticeship and Developmental perspectives and the highest mean belief score in the Nurturing perspective. The factors years of teaching experience and Carnegie Classification institutional type were not found to be of significant difference in results, but a significant difference was found between intentions and actions in each perspective. The most significant implication for practice was the amount of reported actions in the Transmission perspective even though faculty reported less intention in the classroom. Supplemental analysis of master’s and doctoral institutions were completed, indicating a significant difference between pre- and late-tenure faculty in Transmission beliefs. This result suggests that a change in beliefs about classroom teaching practices is occurring from a teacher-centered to student-centered environments.

Marc Cutright (Advisor)
112 p.

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  • Kehres, E. C. (2007). Faculty Beliefs, Intentions, and Actions in Occupational Therapy Education [Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1178807253

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Kehres, Edward. Faculty Beliefs, Intentions, and Actions in Occupational Therapy Education. 2007. Ohio University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1178807253.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Kehres, Edward. "Faculty Beliefs, Intentions, and Actions in Occupational Therapy Education." Doctoral dissertation, Ohio University, 2007. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1178807253

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)