A Phenomenological Study: Exploring College Students' Experiences and Perceptions about Their Adjuncts' Teaching Styles.

The purpose of this qualitative study using the phenomenological approach was to explore students' lived experiences through their perceptions of the effectiveness of adjuncts' teaching styles in one community college located in the Northeastern United States.Many adjuncts bring knowledge of their field and passion to their learning spaces, but they lack the teaching skills to communicate their knowledge to their students effectively.Through the critical student experience, this study explored adjuncts' teaching styles.This study used the interview method to explore how college students describe how they learn most effectively, the teaching styles their adjunct instructors use in the classroom, and how they characterize an effective adjunct.A three-part one-on-one, semi-structured interview was used to collect data from five college students about their experiences with adjuncts' teaching skills.The data was analyzed for common themes that emerged from the college students' experiences with adjuncts' teaching styles providing five results.First, students perceive real world application methods to be an effective learning and teaching style they experienced with adjuncts.Second, Students perceive content knowledge to be a characteristic of effective adjunct teaching that they have experienced with adjuncts.Third, students perceive communication to be a characteristic of effective learning and teaching styles, however they have experienced communication barriers with adjuncts.