title: Students' ratings of teaching effectiveness: a laughing matter?
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: University of Ulster at Magee College, UK.
authors.forename: Gary
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Adamson
authors.forename: Damian
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: O'Kane
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shevlin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007845:Laughter; D008297:Male; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D013663:Teaching / Q000592:standards*