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DETERMINING THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE IDEAL PROFESSOR: AN ALTERNATIVE APPROACH
Author(s) -
SUBKOVIAK MICHAEL J.,
LEVIN JOEL R.
Publication year - 1974
Publication title -
journal of educational measurement
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.917
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1745-3984
pISSN - 0022-0655
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-3984.1974.tb00999.x
Subject(s) - data collection , ideal (ethics) , interpretation (philosophy) , multidimensional scaling , conjunction (astronomy) , mathematics education , computer science , scaling , psychology , statistics , mathematics , epistemology , machine learning , philosophy , physics , astronomy , programming language , geometry
In a recently conducted study it was found that an effective college teacher could be characterized chiefly in terms of “research,”“teaching,” and “service to the university.” The present experiment corroborated these findings using a relatively unknown approach to data collection, analysis, and interpretation. A free‐response method of data collection, in conjunction with nonmetric multidimensional scaling, produced results highly similar to those of the previous study. In addition, the solution permitted a straight‐forward means of assessing the performance of individual faculty members.