faculty members, nine courses were purposefully selected to meet the objectives of this

study.

 Four instruments were utilized to collect data from the participants. They were the

following: Kirton Adaption-Innovation Inventory (KAI) (Kirton, 1976), National Survey

of Student Engagement 2005 (NSSE) with demographic questions (Kuh, 2001),

Motivated Strategies for Learning Questionnaire (MSLQ) (Pintrich, Smith, Garcia, and

McKeachie, 1991), and Student-life Stress Inventory (SSI) (Gadzella, 1994). All

instruments were assessed for validity and reliability prior to conducting the study. Post-

hoc reliabilities for this study were presented in chapter 4.

 In chapter 4, data were analyzed per class and organized by objectives. This study

primarily used descriptive statistics, correlation statistics, and backward stepwise

multiple linear regression.