Strategi Pengajaran Dosen Dan Pengalaman Pembelajaran Mahasiswa Dalam Matematika Teknik Di Polytechnic Kuching Sarawak Malaysia

Teaching and learning approaches practiced by educators today must  be different to suit the contents and time. Lecturers-teaching focused on  student-centered teaching should be encouraged and emphasized as highly  active student involvement is required during the process of teaching and  learning. Active student involvement will form the interest of students to  explore knowledge. The purpose of this study is to get the students’ perception  of the lecturers’ teaching and students’ learning experiences. In this study, the lecturers’ teaching aspect highlighted is composed of a lecturer-centered  teaching methods and student-centered teaching and learning experience  aspects is in relation to active learning and passive learning. This study  involved a total of 169 respondents among 2 nd semester engineering students  of diploma program who are studying in Engineering Mathematics 2 at  Polytechnic Kuching Sarawak. These samples were identifid through  stratifid random sampling method to answer a questionnaire about the lecturers’ teaching and students learning experiences. The instrument  used was a structured questionnaire which containing 20 items. The data  obtained were analyzed using descriptive statistics; i.e. mean, percentage  and standard deviation. Through this study, the overall mean value obtained  for lecturer-centered teaching methods and student-centered teaching  methods are respectively 4.08 and 3.81. While the overall mean for active  learning and passive learning is respectively 3.65 and 4.04. In this regard,  the role of the lecturers who teach should not be underestimated because  the majority of students still consider lecturer as a source of knowledge  and “guardian” of them. Keywords : Active learning, Student-centered teaching