The Impact of the COVID-19 Emergency Transition to Online Instruction on Faculty Self-Efficacy for Online Teaching
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Thesis/DissertationDate
2022Author
Edgell, Lauren
Advisor
DuCette, Joseph P.Committee member
Stull, Judith C., 1944-Bailey, Lori M.
Boyer, Jean A.
Department
Educational LeadershipSubject
Higher educationEducational leadership
Educational technology
COVID-19
Faculty development
Online instruction
Online teaching
Online teaching self-efficacy
Teacher self-efficacy
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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12613/8002Metadata
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http://dx.doi.org/10.34944/dspace/7974Abstract
The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of the emergency transition to online instruction due to COVID-19 on faculty self-efficacy for online teaching. A survey was constructed by adapting items from multiple previously vetted instruments into a retrospective pre-test/post-test design. Data were collected in January 2022 from 83 faculty at a private, STEM-focused university in Pennsylvania. On average, respondents increased their online teaching load by approximately 25% as a result of the emergency transition due to COVID-19, after which they showed a statistically significant increase in online teaching self-efficacy with a very large effect size. Dispersion was lower in the post-COVID time period. Also, the more change to their typical course delivery mode a faculty experienced, the greater the increase in their online teaching self-efficacy. These findings suggest that the universal experience of the emergency transition to online instruction due to COVID-19 may have had an equalizing effect on online teaching self-efficacy. Age and scores on measures of teaching self-efficacy not specific to online instruction had statistically significant relationships with online teaching self-efficacy in separate pre- and post-COVID regression models; however, a Chow Test indicated that there was no statistically significant difference between the two equations with all parameters taken together. Administrators should consider diversifying the modalities in which faculty teach to provide ongoing exposure to online teaching, which will support faculty online teaching self-efficacy and, thus, help prepare universities for any future unexpected transition to online instruction.ADA compliance
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