A study of the relationship between tutor's personality and teaching effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?

A study of the relationship between tutor's personality and teaching effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?

• Chan, Bobbie Open University of Hong Kong

International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, 3(2), 2002

International Rice Research Institute

2002

• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MH Teacher Evaluation : Teacher Effectiveness
• M Teachers & Education for Teachers
  • MF Characteristics & Conditions of Educational Workers

Cultural Relevance Distance Education Foreign Countries Personality Teacher Characteristics Teacher Effectiveness Hong Kong Myers Briggs Type Indicator

• Hong Kong

• 1997.7 onwards

• Post-Secondary Education

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Good tutoring requires appropriate interpersonal and pedagogical skills. Tutor personality is a major factor affecting how tutors communicate and deals with students, and yet it is a largely unexplored context of distance education. Using the Chinese Personality Assessment Inventory (CPAI)* this paper examines how the personality of tutors' affects their teaching effectiveness at a distance learning institution in Hong Kong. The results are compared to those reported by Chan (2001) in a similar study using the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI). The results indicate that certain scales on the Chinese Tradition factor of the CPAI are significantly related to tutors' teaching performance, and that the MBTI could not subsume all the CPAI scales. Future research with the CPAI should explore whether this Chinese Tradition factor is unique to the Chinese culture or whether it comprises elements of a universal domain useful in understanding key interpersonal aspects of personality that have been absent from Western personality inventories.
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2010-11-24