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Assessment of Instructors’ Level of Teaching Competence: Descriptive Comparative Study

Juarlito V Garcines

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

This study aimed to determine the level of instructors’ teaching competence in Agusan del Sur State College of Agriculture and Technology. In this study, descriptive comparative method of research was utilized. For data collection, the questionnaire of Barnuevo, Hasigawa and Hugo (2012) was adopted. The respondents were 358 students from the three colleges: 48 students from the College of Engineering and Information Sciences, 162 from the College of Agriculture and 148 from the College of Teacher Education. The results revealed that the level of teaching competence of instructors among three colleges was perceived high by students and that there was a significant difference in instructors’ teaching competence when grouped according to college in terms of mastery of subject matter, teaching skills, classroom management and evaluation skills. The instructors from the College of Agriculture were perceived highest in the mastery of subject matter and evaluation skills. Those from the College of Engineering and Information Sciences were perceived highest in teaching skill. Instructors from the CEIS and CA were both highest in classroom management. Those from the College of Teacher Education were perceived lesser in teaching competence compared to those from the CA and CEIS.