Students' ratings of teaching effectiveness: a laughing matter?
Gump in 2004 identified a positive significant relationship between awareness of daily class objectives and ratings of the instructor's overall teaching effectiveness. The idea that rating of teaching effectiveness can be related to other non-teaching related attributes of the lecturer was further examined. Correlations based on ratings of teaching effectiveness from 453 undergraduate students (M=21 yr., SD= 5.5; 73% women) showed that another nonteaching related variable, namely, how funny the instructor was perceived, was significantly related to indicators of teaching effectiveness.
Adamson
Gary
G
University of Ulster at Magee College, UK.
O'Kane
Damian
D
Shevlin
Mark
M
D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007845:Laughter; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards*