Profile of university teachers using a student-centered approach to teaching

The teaching approaches that university teachers use determine their way of facing the educational process and their role as teachers. These can be of two types, Information Transmission/Teacher-focused (ITTF) and Conceptual Change/Student-focused (CCSF). The objective of this research is to draw the profile of the university teacher according to the most employed teaching approach. To this end, the ATI questionnaire (2004) was applied to a total of 501 university teachers from the Region of Murcia. The results show that the student-centered approach is the most used among teachers who have received didactic training, that are younger or with less years of experience, preferably from the art or humanities and social and legal sciences fields and depending on the type of university they belong to. In this way, it is possible to detect the variables that determine the use of this approach, to the detriment of the previous one, and as a consequence, the areas where it is most necessary to work in order to make the change possible.