A Study of the Relationship Between Tutor's Personality and Teaching Effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?

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 pap...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:f0a7e4b0acfa4dd4be2cfc466f6b232f2021-12-02T18:03:19ZA Study of the Relationship Between Tutor's Personality and Teaching Effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?10.19173/irrodl.v3i2.1101492-3831https://doaj.org/article/f0a7e4b0acfa4dd4be2cfc466f6b232f2002-10-01T00:00:00Zhttp://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/110https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831Good 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.Bobbie ChanAthabasca University PressarticleChinese Assessment Inventorytutor effectivenessMyers-Briggs Type IndicatorpersonalityChineseSpecial aspects of educationLC8-6691ENInternational Review of Research in Open and Distributed Learning, Vol 3, Iss 2 (2002)
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topic Chinese Assessment Inventory
tutor effectiveness
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
personality
Chinese
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
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tutor effectiveness
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
personality
Chinese
Special aspects of education
LC8-6691
Bobbie Chan
A Study of the Relationship Between Tutor's Personality and Teaching Effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?
description 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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title A Study of the Relationship Between Tutor's Personality and Teaching Effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?
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