DESIRABLE LECTURER CHARACTERISTICS: FINDINGS FROM MANAGEMENT AND BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENTS IN JAKARTA AND BANDUNG, INDONESIA
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2014-06-25
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The 1st International Conference on Business, Economics and Social Sciences (ICBESS) 2014, Indonesia College of Economics (STEI) Jakarta
Abstract
Two hundred and sixty respondents out of eight hundred students from four universities at two
cities, Jakarta and Bandung, were surveyed to obtain information on what characteristics of
lecturer that the Management and Business school students really want. Using Factor Analysis
with Principal Component Extraction method and Equamax rotation after several trials, the
Kaiser Meyer Olkin measure of sampling adequacy value is 0.829, with 0.000 significant levels
and 53.94% cumulative percentage. This study has formed 7 new components from 30 important
indicators which are selected rigorously in focus group discussion session among faculty
students. Some important findings in this study are: 1) the first component consists of “caring”,
“open minded”, “value student opinion”, “value to diversity”, “be fair”, “wise”, and “open to
critics”; 2) the second component consists of “response precision”, “media for teaching”, “vast
knowledge” and “examples”; 3) the next group comprises “appearance”, “media use” “humor”,
“beauty”, “handsomeness”; 4) the fourth component consists of “experience” “reputation”,
“English”, and “foreign language”; 5) the fifth component consists of “relationship”,
“motivator”, “religious”, and “anti corruption”; 6) the sixth component consists of “on-time”,
“syllabi”, and “grading”; 7) the seventh component consists of “old”, “young” and “academic
degree”.
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Lecturer Characteristics, Students’ Academic Achievement