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Nickie Paul Smith II – ProQuest LLC, 2024
This quantitative study aimed to investigate the influence of teacher personality on teacher-student relatedness, student intrinsic motivation, and academic performance. The pressing need to understand the factors influencing educational outcomes driving this study arises from the desire to enhance teaching effectiveness and student success. By…
Descriptors: Personality Traits, Teacher Student Relationship, Student Motivation, Academic Achievement
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Nienaber, Kristie; Abrams, Gwyneth; Segrist, Dan – Journal of the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 2019
Instructors often use humor in teaching their classes. Research suggests that humor can affect how instructors and their teaching are perceived. The current study examined whether the type of humor used by a hypothetical instructor and instructor gender affected the perceived likelihood of engaging with the instructor. College students read a…
Descriptors: Teaching Styles, Humor, Learner Engagement, Gender Differences
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de Jong, Romi; Mainhard, Tim; van Tartwijk, Jan; Veldman, Ietje; Verloop, Nico; Wubbels, Theo – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2014
Background: Although the teacher-student relationship is a well-documented phenomenon, few attempts have been made to identify its predictors. Research has mainly focused on in-service teachers, less is known about characteristics of pre-service teachers in relation to the teacher-student relationship. Aims: The purpose of this study was to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Personality Traits, Self Efficacy, Discipline