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

dc.creator	Bobbie Chan
dc.date	2002-10-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned	2015-08-12T11:20:35Z
dc.date.available	2015-08-12T11:20:35Z
dc.identifier	1492-3831
dc.identifier	https://doaj.org/article/92fa259da0b64a9fbb710b00fde53eb2
dc.identifier.uri	http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/28391
dc.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.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	Athabasca University
dc.relation	http://www.irrodl.org/index.php/irrodl/article/view/110/190
dc.relation	https://doaj.org/toc/1492-3831
dc.rights	CC BY
dc.source	International Review of Research in Open and Distance Learning, Vol 3, Iss 2 (2002)
dc.subject	Chinese Assessment Inventory
dc.subject	tutor effectiveness
dc.subject	Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
dc.subject	personality
dc.subject	Chinese
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	DOAJ:Education
dc.subject	DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.subject	Special aspects of education
dc.subject	LC8-6691
dc.subject	Education
dc.subject	L
dc.title	A Study of the Relationship Between Tutor's Personality and Teaching Effectiveness: Does culture make a difference?
dc.type	article