A study of Student's Views on Desirable Teaching Methods in Gilan University

In the present research, patterns for desirable teaching in Gilan University has been discussed and analyzed bases on student’s opinions in different faculties. As the first step, forty freshman were asked to express their ideas on desirable teaching methods. Next, a number of 365 students were selected from among the total population of 7000 students in university using cluster sampling. Through questionnaires, the mentioned students who comprised about 5% of the whole population were asked to assign a rank to effective factors on desirable teaching methods and determine whether the factors and minor of major. Also, differences and contradictions between importance and specialty of teaching methods for the whole sample and six different faculties were taken into account. Although, the subjects held different stances on the grounds of their majors and experiences they were generally unanimous on their idea. Ranking the analyzing factors also led to the conclusion that desirable teaching pattern has been paid attention to by the students based on learning-centered and teaching-centered general factors.