title: Identifying significant predictors of student evaluations of faculty through hierarchical regression analysis.
abstract: College teachers' ages and personalities, and students' course grades, gender, enrollment status, academic abilities, and ages were investigated as predictors of student evaluations of faculty. An evaluation form containing 7 items reflecting the personality trait of extraversion and 8 items reflecting teaching effectiveness was used to collect data from 351 undergraduates. Teachers' extraversion (.79) and teachers' ages (-.08) were correlated highest, and students' gender was correlated lowest (.08) with teaching effectiveness. Hierarchical regression revealed that teachers' extraversion was the only significant predictor of student evaluations (beta = .76, p < .001) after controlling for enrollment status, course grades, and student ages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Missouri Western State College, St. Joseph 64507, USA. radmache@mwsc.edu
authors.forename: S A
authors.initials: SA
authors.lastname: Radmacher
authors.forename: D J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Martin
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010551:Personality; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards*