Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v23i2.4019
Age and Residential Differences in Future Primary School Teachers’ Perception of Teaching in Higher Education and the Correlation with Life Satisfaction
Lidija Miočić
orcid.org/0000-0003-2090-2661
; Elementary school of Juraj Baraković, Ražanac Ražanac X 9, 23248 Ražanac, Croatia
Abstract
This work provides insight into student/future primary education teachers’ evaluation
of course quality in higher education and its connection to life satisfaction. In the
summer semester of academic year 2018/1019, the research was implemented with
the goal of determining age and residential differences in evaluation of teaching
quality and its connection with life satisfaction of future primary education teachers.
The participants (N=294) were students of teacher education studies at the Faculty
of Teacher Education in Zagreb (departments in Zagreb and Čakovec) and at the
Faculty of Education of Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek. Student Course
Experience Questionnaire (Ginns et al., 2007) and Satisfaction with Life Scale were
utilised (Diener et al., 1985). The results indicate differences in evaluation of course
quality in higher education with regard to students’ place of residence and university
they attend. Students who reside in urban areas assess the quality as higher. Students
at Josip Juraj Strossmayer University in Osijek evaluate teaching quality as higher
than students at the University of Zagreb. The research did not yield differences in
evaluation of course quality at universities with regard to students’ age. Besides, a
positive correlation between student course experience and life satisfaction was found,
but no statistically significant difference in life satisfaction was determined considering
students’ place of residence and age, nor with regard to university they attend.
Keywords
curriculum; students; student course experience
Hrčak ID:
262066
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Publication date:
3.9.2021.
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