Teaching Practices: A Cluster Analysis of Teaching Staff in Hong Kong

Abstract

The authors used three teaching dimensions: Information Technology Factor, Student Activity Factor, and Traditional Teaching Factor in classifying teaching staff into different teaching style groups with similar characteristics in their preferences of teaching methods using cluster analysis. They are Information Technology Group, Student Activities Group, Traditional Teaching Group, and All Adopted Group. Based on contingency table with chi-square test, certain characteristics among the teaching faculty staff can be identified among different faculties in Hong Kong.