Evaluation of Academic Optimism Levels of The Lecturer: A Qualitative Research

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the academic optimism perceptions of lecturers. The phenomenological design, one of the qualitative research types, was used to examine the academic optimism of the lecturers. The participants of the study consisted of faculty members working in educational sciences in an education faculty. In the data collection process, a semi-structured interview form developed by the researcher was used. In this study, the data were analyzed using the descriptive analysis method. It can be said that there are different interpretations of the collective faculty efficacy evaluations among the lecturers. Some lecturer is inadequate, some are sufficient and some are not able to evaluate. In the academic emphasis theme, it was said that both the lecturer and the students did not pay the necessary attention to academic success. In the research, it was stated that the expectations of the lecturer for the students were generally low.

Keywords

• Academic Optimism
• Teacher Academic Optimism
• Lecturer

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