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Perceived Attributes of Superior Teachers (Past)

An Inquiry into the Giving of Teacher Awards

Bibliographic Data

ID8221192
AuthorsCharles A Goldsmid (Oberlin College, corresponding author), James E Gruber (0009-0000-7294-1342, University of Wisconsin–Parkside), Everett K Wilson (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
Year1977
Volume14
Issue4
Pages423-440
Publication date1977-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAmerican Educational Research Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0002-8312 • E-ISSN: 1935-1011
PublisherAmerican Educational Research Association (AERA) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3102/00028312014004423
OpenAlexW2142740366
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited11

We examined the conferring of distinguished teaching awards, a social device to help sustain professed group values. A content analysis located 2900 statements (made by 978 students and faculty, at UNC-Chapel Hill, in support of their nominees) in 35 categories. The imputed attributes of superior teachers described, chiefly, teaching techniques. Far fewer personal and professional traits were mentioned. The optimum set of traits imputed to superior teachers combines command of subject matter, concern for student and techniques for conveying that competence and conscientiousness. To understand more about factors making for superior teaching, we compared certain background characteristics of rank award-winner and placers (N = 60) with 60 controls. We also explored relationships between nominee rank and various personal and contextual characteristics and factors affecting student-teacher interaction, jointly and separately considered in regression analysis

Academic achievement · Big Five personality traits · Competence (human resources · Conscientiousness · Curriculum · Extraversion and introversion · Mathematics education · Pedagogy · Personality · Rank (graph theory · Regression analysis · Set (abstract data type · Student achievement · Subject matter · Communication in Education and Healthcare · Computer Science · Evaluation of Teaching Practices · Mathematics · Psychology · Social Psychology

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Unique citing works7
Citations per year0,14
Citation span1976 - 2006 (31)
Citation velocityhistorical
Highly citedNo
Citation typesNeutral: 7
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