Undergraduate Students’ Perceptions of Teaching Quality in Higher Education

The purpose of this study was to examine undergraduate students’ perceptions of
teaching quality. The frst aim is to adapt the “Course Experience Questionnaire (SCEQ)” scale
developed by Ginns, Prosser and Barrie (2007). The second aim is to compare undergraduate
students’ studying at fve faculties of Adıyaman university as well as students from faculties of education at fve diferent universities. A scanning method was used in the study.Translation validity was used through back translation method. Exploratory factor analysis and confrmatory factor analysis were used for reliability and validity of the scale. The Cronbach’s alfa was determined as 0.83. The scale, adapted to the Turkish context through SPSS and Lisrel. The scale was conducted on 1415 undergradute students studying at fve diferent universities. Students’ perceptions did not difer with regards to teaching quality at faculties of education at universities whether be a newly founded one or not. Students’ perceptions also revealed no signifcant problem in teaching quality at faculties of education.