Teaching Dimensions Defining Efficient College Instructors: A Reliability and Validity Study

The purpose of this study is to assess the validity and reliability of SEEQ for Turkish College students and to determine the dimensions that best discriminate the instructors who were rated as the best and the worst by the students. Data was collected from a total of 693 college students. Both explanatory and confirmatory factor analysis confirmed the 9-factor structure of SEEQ observed in the previous studies. Reliability scores ranging from .77 to .95 along with the validity results were supportive of the equivalency of Turkish and English forms of the SEEQ. Finally, although all subscales were efficient in discriminating the instructors rated as the best and worst, four subscales emerged especially important; Instructor Enthusiasm, Group Interaction, Learning/Value and Organization/clarity. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]