Study of teacher effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their personality type

The present study was an attempt to investigate teacher effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their personality type. A data was collected randomly from the sample of 160 secondary school teachers of Amritsar district using tools Teacher Effectiveness Scale (TES) by Dr.(Mrs.) Umme Kulsum and Introversion Extroversion Inventory (IEI) by Dr. P.F. Aziz and Dr.( Mrs.) Rekha Gupta. The results revealed that female secondary school teachers are better on preparing and planning for teaching dimension of teacher effectiveness than male secondary school teachers. On the other hand male secondary school teachers are better on interpersonal relations dimension of teacher effectiveness than female secondary school teachers. It is further found that rural secondary school teachers are better on classroom management, knowledge of subject matter and interpersonal relations dimension of teacher effectiveness than urban secondary school teachers. Secondary school teachers having extrovert personality were found to be better on preparing and planning for teaching, classroom management, knowledge of subject matter, teacher characteristics and interpersonal relations dimensions of teacher effectiveness than secondary school teachers having introvert personality.