The study reported here demonstrates the differing requirements critical to teaching at the elementary, secondary, and college level. In college teaching professional factors (e.g. knowledge of subject matter and class presentation) were found to have greatest significance in overall effectiveness of teaching-learning performance as opposed to…

At Bucknell University, a study of student preferences for faculty teaching styles indicates an overwhelming preference for professors who see themselves and are seen as teachers rather than researchers, administrators or socialites. This preference was found to exist across sex, class level, and student self-reported personality ratings (JMD)

Pressure for competency based teaching and the need for models of teacher effectiveness for teacher education prompted this research on the influences on cognitive and affective learning. The results indicate that teacher personality is an influence and that during the elementary years the affective domain is more important than the cognitive.…

Six characteristics, including structure, rapport, the ability to be stimulating, and objective evaluation, are suggested as important for effective teaching. A program for personal development, designed to make the challenge of improving teaching a practical and rewarding experience, is proposed. (JMD)

This study is an attempt to replicate earlier investigations at other institutions regarding the characteristics of an "ideal professor." Indiana University Northwest undergraduate and graduate students are in agreement about the most and least important characteristics: encouraging independent thinking, and liking college-age youth, respectively.…

Research on the effectiveness and optimum performances of the college teacher is urgently needed to establish an adequate basis for validation of teacher evaluation. (IR)

A study of student assessment of teaching assistants in physical education activity courses is described. The purpose of the study was to compare student ratings of instructional effectiveness with teaching assistants' traits of sex, age, degree, undergraduate major, and teaching experience. (MLW)

In order to examine the value of student evaluations of faculty, a survey of seniors regarding the quality of teaching they received in their four years of undergraduate college was undertaken. Topics include: the qualities of the best and worst teachers; preferred teaching methods; and faculty age, educational background, and department…