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Personality Correlates of Teaching Effectiveness of Teachers in Higher Education
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Effective teaching stimulates student curiosity and active learning, encourage analytical, logical and creative thinking and increase both their desire and capacity for future learning. The teaching effectiveness implies achieving the objectives and intended results of education and thus contributing hugely to the quality education. The present study aimed at evaluating teaching effectiveness and personality correlates of teachers. The sample of 60 teachers was taken from the management colleges of Jaipur district. The present research used the 16 PF Questionnaire for measuring pattern similarity coefficient among teachers. The results described the overall personality profile of teachers under study and revealed that the present group is more or less average on all the dimensions of 16 personality factors, except on the traits C and F the group scored below average, indicating that the present sample of teachers is emotionally less stable and sober type. On the traits B and Q1 group scored above average that means the teachers are experimenting and above average in intelligence. There is clear cut difference between present teachers group and “ideal” pattern, where the present group is distinctively less intelligent, sober, more conscientious, shy, less imaginative and less self sufficient in comparison to their “Ideal” counterparts. The studied group is average at humbleness, tender mindedness, forthrightness and experimentation. The results also disclosed pattern similarity value of individual teacher with ideal group; which also incorporates similarity and deviation of individual teachers from general population. It was indicated that only 38.33% teachers are significantly similar to the “ideal” pattern.
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Teaching Effectiveness, Personality, Higher Education.
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