TY - JOUR
T1 - Public beliefs about good teaching
AU - Haas, Eric
AU - Fischman, Gustavo
AU - Pivovarova, Margarita
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2023.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - In this article, we describe public beliefs about the pedagogical approaches of very good teachers. Using an online survey of 334 adult participants and conducting an exploratory factor analysis, an analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis, along with descriptive statistics, we found that participants believed that very good teachers embraced predominantly caring and supportive pedagogical approaches and had strong subject matter knowledge. Further, they estimated that more than two-thirds of their teachers were good or very good teachers, and only 12% were bad or very bad. The best predictor for the level of agreement with the pedagogical approach that focused on relationship as opposed to delivery of the content was the proportion of very good teachers remembered by participants. Participants’ beliefs did not vary significantly across gender, race, and political orientation.
AB - In this article, we describe public beliefs about the pedagogical approaches of very good teachers. Using an online survey of 334 adult participants and conducting an exploratory factor analysis, an analysis of variance, and multiple regression analysis, along with descriptive statistics, we found that participants believed that very good teachers embraced predominantly caring and supportive pedagogical approaches and had strong subject matter knowledge. Further, they estimated that more than two-thirds of their teachers were good or very good teachers, and only 12% were bad or very bad. The best predictor for the level of agreement with the pedagogical approach that focused on relationship as opposed to delivery of the content was the proportion of very good teachers remembered by participants. Participants’ beliefs did not vary significantly across gender, race, and political orientation.
KW - bad teachers
KW - Beliefs
KW - good teachers
KW - pedagogical approaches
KW - relationships
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U2 - 10.1177/00345237231207717
DO - 10.1177/00345237231207717
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85174515352
SN - 0034-5237
JO - Research in Education
JF - Research in Education
ER -