What Makes Great Teachers Great: Effect of Teachers’ Personality on Students’ Engagement

Abstract

Students get the influence from teachers’ personality and it is one of the important factors determining the interests and academic achievement of students in the course of that specific teacher to whom they like. The main purpose of this research is to find out those aspects of teachers’ personality which are appreciated or disliked by the students at university level. This study is an effort to make university teachers realize that the different aspects of their personality are noticed by students that’s why they should be conscious enough about exposing their different personality traits. This study is quantitative in its design and a survey questionnaire has been used to collect data from the university students regarding their judgment about their teachers’ personality. 521 students both male and female of three universities of Lahore participated in this study. Data was analyzed using SPSS 21.  Results indicated that students prefer mature, experienced, friendly and supportive teachers over young, serious and highly commanding ones.