Creative teaching practice among Islamic education lecturers: The influence of gender, age, and teaching experience

Abstract

Higher education plays an important role in providing human resources that will contribute to the sustainable development of a country. Thus, lecturers are the main support to shape the students in the best way to become qualified manpower in the future through a creative and effective teaching process. This study aimed to identify the level of creative teaching practices among the Islamic Education lecturers in the Polytechnic Central and Southern Zones. Furthermore, it was aimed to identify the influence of gender, age, and teaching experience on creative teaching. In order to achieve this, a questionnaire was administered online and a total of 74 respondents were involved. The collected data were analyzed through descriptive analysis of frequency, percentage, and mean and inferential analysis of t-test, Pearson correlation, and regression. The findings indicated that the level of creative teaching practice among Islamic Education lecturers in the Polytechnic was at a high level. In addition, the findings showed that there is no significant difference in creative teaching practice according to gender, age, and teaching experience. The findings can be useful for the polytechnic’s faculty members in ensuring that creative teaching was implemented in the teaching and learning process.