International Journal of Education and Social Science www.ijessnet.com Vol. 3 No. 10; October 2016 67 Understanding the Influence of Mosston’s Spectrum of Teaching Styles Using Sentiment Analysis Las Johansen B. Caluza, PhD Abstract Teaching style is inevitably essential in the profession of instruction. Understanding the influence of teaching style used by the Professors is equally important in building a foundation of how learners appreciate in the delivery of education. In this study, the Mosston’s Spectrum of Teaching Styles used by the Professors of MPE Students was explored through the use of exploratory design of mixed methods approach in research. The Graduate Students were asked using open-ended questions about their views on the teaching styles employed by their Professors. Text mining technique was used in processing these views using sentiment analysis. It revealed that positive feelings were discovered and formed significant themes describing how Professors in the MPE program in the graduate school employed the different teaching styles and the influence itself to the professional growth of the learners. Keywords: Teaching Style, Student Learning Outcome, Mosston’s Spectrum, Physical Education, Mixed Methods, Exploratory Design, Text Mining, Social Science 1.0 Introduction An effective teacher is someone who influences its students and peers as an educator and a mentor. He uses different teaching styles and strategies, making his discussion more interactive learning and entertainment are also known as Edutainment. To be an effective teacher, he must possess certain characteristics that appear again and again such as analytic and or synthetic approach, dynamism and enthusiasm, instructor-group interaction, and instructor-individual student interaction (Characteristics of Effective Teachers, nd). In an article found on the internet site of Gordon College described Teachers impact on our learning, development, and even on what we become. Teaching styles employed by the teacher were easily recognized by the learners once the students quickly adopt, learned, and interactively participate in the classroom discussions. Teaching styles of a teacher significantly affect the transfer of knowledge from the teacher to the learners. In a study conducted, it reveals that matching of learning styles of the students and the teaching styles used by the teachers significantly improved the students’ reflection level in a ubiquitous learning (Hsieh, Jang, Hwang, & Chen, 2011). U-learning is a learning paradigm which takes a position in a ubiquitous computing environment that enables determining the proper thing at the correct place and time in the right direction (Yahya, Ahmad, & Jalil, 2010). This indicator alone reveals the importance of matching the teaching styles and the learning styles of the students in improving their knowledge. Among the most prevalent teaching styles used by the teachers in the graduate program were guided discovery, practice, and self-check approaches (Las Johansen, B.C., Diaz, M.V.A, & Gabon, R., 2015). The graduate program of a university consists of professionals, practitioners, experts, and teachers in the field and the industry. It is empirical to understand the influence of the different teaching styles used by their professors in their actual work or the area to discover if they apply these learnings in the real world. 2.0 Research Problem This research explored the sentiments of the participants concerning the different experiences they encountered on the kind of teaching styles used by their Professors in the Graduate Program in the Master in Physical Education (MPE). Also, this research investigated the influence of these teaching styles in their daily activities.