Personal Characteristics and Teaching Effectiveness of College Faculty
Sherman B.R.; Blackburn R.T.
1975
Journal of Educational Psychology
47
10.1037/h0078680
This study determined the degree of relationship between observed faculty personal characteristics and judged teaching effectiveness. Students in a coeducational liberal arts college rated faculty on two typical teaching evaluation instruments and on a semantic differential form. Data came from 1,500 student judgments on 108 men and women faculty (86%). Factor analysis, analysis of variance, and multiple regression analyses showed that (a) personality and teaching effectiveness wore highly correlated (.77), (b) factors derived from the semantic differential predicted a multiple R=.88 for teaching effectiveness, and (c) dynamic, pragmatic, amicable, and highly intellectually competent faculty received statistically significant higher teaching competence ratings than did professors tending toward the opposites of these traits. The findings suggest that improvement of teaching effectiveness may depend more on changes related to personality factors than on those involving classroom procedures. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2006 APA, all rights reserved). © 1975 American Psychological Association.
college faculty; personal characteristics; teaching effectiveness
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