Students' views about pedagogical competence of lecturers

The purpose of this study is to examine the students’ views about faculty members’ pedagogical proficiencies and to determine if these views differ in terms of selected variables. The sample of the study is composed of 792 third and fourth year university students and the population of the study involves students at Faculties of Education, Engineering, Theology, and Economics and Administrative Sciences of a university located in Turkey’s Black Sea Region. The research data were collected by Pedagogical Competences Scale. Results revealed that students think most of the lecturers are sufficient in Democratic Attitude; however, few of them found to be sufficient in Course Process, and Measurement and Evaluation. While there were differences in Democratic Attitude and Measurement Assessment and Evaluation between male and female students, in other proficiencies no significant differences were observed in terms of students’ gender. The views of the students differed in all four factors in terms of faculties and grades. However, their views in none of the four dimensions differed significantly according to the attendance variable