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Teaching culture indicators: Enhancing quality teaching.
Report to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities – Productivity and Innovation Fund Program. (2014)
  • Erica Kustra, University of Windsor
  • Florida Doci, University of Windsor
  • Ken Meadows, Western University
  • Catharine Dishke Hondzel, Western University
  • Lori Goff, McMaster University
  • Peter Wolf, Queen's University - Kingston, Ontario
  • Donna Ellis, University of Waterloo
  • Jill Grose, Brock University
  • Paola Borin, Ryerson University
  • Sandy Hughes, Wilfrid Laurier University
Abstract

Canadian postsecondary institutions are committed to providing students with high quality teaching and learning experiences. In recent years, provincial and institutional stakeholders have shifted their focus toward better supporting this effort and enhancing an evolving, teaching- and learning-centred institutional culture. As Cox, McIntosh, Reason, and Terenzini (2011) note, a culture with improved teaching quality is likely to lead to improved student engagement and learning. Researchers in the United States, Europe, and Australia have investigated institutional culture and its relationship to high quality teaching over the last 20 years (Aitken & Sorcinelli, 1994; Cox et al., 2011; Hodge, Nadler, Shore, & Taylor, 2011; Gosling, 2013; Harvey & Stensaker, 2008; Kallioinen, 2013; Hunt, 2013, Prosser, 2013); however, to date, there is little, if any, research done in this area in the Canadian context.

Publication Date
Summer June 30, 2014
Citation Information
Kustra, E., Doci, F., Meadows, K., Dishke Honzel, C., Goff, L., Gabay, D., Wolf, P., Ellis, D., Grose, J., Borin, P., & Hughes, S.E. (2014). Teaching culture indicators: Enhancing quality teaching. Report to the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities – Productivity and Innovation Fund Program. University of Windsor: Windsor, ON.