Needs, motivations, and identification with teaching: a comparative study of temporary part-time and tenure-track health science faculty in Iceland

Table 4 Item Comparisons

			DSA	A	SA	DF	SS	Chi-square	p
I would have liked more pedagogy before I started teaching	TF	Count	31	27	20	2	235	7.92	0.019
	TF	% within teacher type	40%	35%	25%
	SF	Count	46	41	70
	SF	% within teacher type	29%	26%	45%
It is part of a teacher’s responsibility to invest time and energy to improve teaching	TF	Count	36	22	17	2	222	7.31	0.026
	TF	% within teacher type	48%	29%	23%
	SF	Count	48	70	29
	SF	% within teacher type	33%	47%	20%
			3+	1 or 2	0
The number of times I participated in activities that developed my teaching methods in last year.	TF	Count	33	35	10	2	238	33.96	<.0001
	TF	% within teacher type	42%	45%	13%
	SF	Count	22	67	71
	SF	% within teacher type	14%	42%	44%

DSA- strongly disagree, disagree, somewhat disagree, somewhat agree; A - agree; SA - strongly agree;
TF - tenured faculty; SF - sessional faculty
DF - degrees of freedom; SS - sample size; p - significance level

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