Investigation of Required Qualifications of Instructors by Means of Pair-wise Comparison Method

Abstract

This study investigates the qualifications instructors should have by using the pair-wise comparison method. The data collection tool included 8 (eight) qualifications regarding students’ demographic data for pair-wise comparison method. Study data were collected from 1241 students from several faculties and departments in 9 Turkish universities. According to the students’ views, motivating to learn is the leading qualification required of instructors. The first qualification on the list was found to differ by gender. Accordingly, female students rated motivating to learn the most, while male students rated being inquisitive. By grade level, first-year students prefer having content knowledge by instructors, whereas second, third and fourth-year students opt for motivating to learn on instructors’ side. As for distribution by faculties; the students from Education Faculty want instructors to motivate to learn, students from Faculty of Science and Letters require beinginquisitive, Faculty of Pharmacy motivating to learn, Faculty of Law prefer democratic instructors, Economic and Administrative Sciences require having world knowledge, Faculty of Aquaculture motivating to learn, and Faculty of Engineering prefer inquisitive instructors. Distribution of the study results by field shows that motivating to learn is the most wanted qualification by students in applied and social sciences, while having good content knowledge by health students.Lastly, a difference was found between newly founded universities and others. The students studying in newly established students mainly require having good content knowledge, whereas others opt for being inquisitive as required qualifications of instructors.