Higher Education Faculty: A study on Demographics, Pedagogy and Self-  Efficacy

Author(s)	Mr. SHARATH KUMAR V, Ms. LEKHA R
Country	India
Abstract	Pedagogy is the art and science of teaching, it’s a collection of both knowledge as well as skillwhich is required for teaching effectively. Teacher is an active agent in this changing society, thepedagogy too needs to change in order to meet the demandsand expectation of the students and society. Successful learning is possible only with efforts ofteachers and students. Faculty demographics includes years of teaching experience, department,gender, full time and part time status and education level. Efficacy is the capacity of producing adesired result or effect. Faculty efficacy can be measured by how well they can engage students,which can be done by motivating students with low interest, fostering student’s creativity, andgauge students capacity to comprehend, craft good questions for students and provide appropriate challenges according to student’s capacity. There is no single teaching strategy which matcheswith all the situations, for different groups of students different combination of strategies has tobe used to increase the learning outcome, which a teacher learns only through experience. Facultydemographic factors bring about change in pedagogy and efficacy.
Keywords	pedagogy, efficacy, demography
Field	Business Administration
Published In	Volume 8, Issue 3, May-June 2026
Published On	2026-05-13

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