Deconstrucción del “buen profesor”. Análisis de las características formales y no formales de la docencia universitaria

Antonio Casero-Martínez, Antonio

doi:10.7203/relieve.22.2.9419

Deconstructing the notion of a “good teacher”. An analysis of the formal and non-formal characteristics of university teaching

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Antonio Casero-Martínez, Antonio Universitat de les Illes Balears

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https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.22.2.9419

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Appraisals of teaching, teaching quality, student satisfaction

Abstract

Background: Student appraisals of teaching quality in universities have mainly focused on more formal aspects of teaching, overlooking other personal factors.

Objective: To identify and analyse the weight of each of the different factors that contribute to the notion of what good teaching represents for students. That is, to identify the equation that constitutes a “good instructor”.

Method: A crosscutting survey, based on the results of reviews and research by the author, leading to the identification of the different factors involved in student appraisals of university teaching. The sample was 885 students from the University of the Balearic Islands, obtained through multistage mixed sampling.

Results: A solution of four factors. In order of explained variance, from highest to lowest, they are personal qualities, teaching competence, compliance and subject matter. From the regression analysis that was conducted, each of the four factors was found to have a statistically significant effect on appraisals of good teaching, with the first and second factors jointly accounting for 93% of all the model’s explained variance.

Conclusions: The big impact of characteristics unrelated to teaching in the resulting equation opens up debate on the relevance of an instructor’s personal qualities, not only in contributing to student satisfaction but also in influencing the teaching and learning process.

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Author Biography

Antonio Casero-Martínez, Antonio, Universitat de les Illes Balears

Degree in Psychology and a PhD in Educational Science. He is an associate lecturer in teaching and educational organization at the University of the Balearic Islands and a member of the Education and Citizenship research group. His research activities are mainly focused on quality in university teaching. His postal address is: Departament de Pedagogía Aplicada y Psicología de la Educación, edificio Guillem Cifre de Colonya, Crta. Valldemossa, km, 7.5. 07122 - Palma (Spain).

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2016-12-19

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Casero-Martínez, Antonio, A. (2016). Deconstructing the notion of a “good teacher”. An analysis of the formal and non-formal characteristics of university teaching. RELIEVE – Electronic Journal of Educational Research and Evaluation, 22(2). https://doi.org/10.7203/relieve.22.2.9419

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Vol. 22 No. 2 (2016)

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