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Lukas Daniel Leatemia1, Astrid Pratidina Susilo2, Jeroen Donkers3
1Department of Medical Education, Faculty of Medicine, Mulawarman University, Samarinda, East Kalimantan, Indonesia. luke_dl@yahoo.com.
Background:
In Asian higher education, PBL is not always successful, as few teachers have embraced a student-centred perspective. To cultivate such essential perspectives, faculty development programmes should address teachers' specific educational needs, which sadly is currently not sufficiently the case. This study aimed to identify teacher profiles that would reveal these specific educational needs of teachers and to investigate the relationship between these profiles and the amount of PBL training previously received.
Methods:
To identify the said profiles, we performed latent profile analysis on a stratified random sample of 543 teachers based on a survey of teaching perspectives on the six aspects of Korthagen's onion model of reflection (environment, behaviour, competencies, beliefs, identity and mission). Additionally, we employed Chi-square and Mann-Whitney tests to investigate the aforementioned relationship.
Results:
We identified six teacher profiles that resemble the diffusion of innovations theory's classification of innovation adopters: Innovators, Early adopters, Early majority 1, Early majority 2, Late majority and Laggards. The Chi-square test demonstrated that the amount of PBL training received did not differ significantly across profiles, although teachers with a more innovative profile had undergone slightly more PBL training. The Mann-Whitney test furthermore revealed for three profiles that more PBL training was associated with a higher overall score for student-centredness. When aspects were considered separately, however, this was not the case.
Conclusions:
The findings confirmed that current faculty development programmes are not sufficiently tailored to teachers' needs. We therefore propose that faculty development programmes be redesigned to address teachers' specific educational needs as reflected in the profiles based on the 6 aspects of the onion model. We expect such a tailored approach to more effectively promote the development of student-centred perspectives.
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