Modern and Postmodern Teaching Styles and Students' Perceived Levels of Motivation and Engagement in Christian High School Bible Classes

Download or read book Modern and Postmodern Teaching Styles and Students' Perceived Levels of Motivation and Engagement in Christian High School Bible Classes written by Joel T. Uecker and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined potential differences between modern and postmodern teaching styles and students' perceived levels of motivation and engagement, using Christian high school Bible teachers and their students. Twenty-four teachers were categorized as either modern or postmodern in style using a Teaching Style Inventory (TSI). These same teachers administered the Motivation and Engagement Scale --High School Version (MES-HS) (Martin, 2008) to their students (N=1,063. The means of students' scores on the MES-HS were examined using a t-test for equally of means. The t-tests revealed no significant difference between students' perceived levels of motivation and engagement and teaching styles.