Relationship between teaching styles and types of teaching personalities in a private institution of higher education

Abstract

The objective of the study is to determine the relationship between the teaching styles, types of personality and temperament of teachers of higher education. A preliminary document was taken from the study "Relationship between teaching styles and levels of reading comprehension" (Pastor, 2008).

The methodology corresponds to non-experimental, descriptive correlational type research. The study population consisted of 50 teachers selected with a sampling non-probability by quotas (De Canales, 1986).

The teachers that participated completed a questionnaire from the teaching styles of Anthony F. Grasha, comprising expert, formal authority, personal model, and facilitator and delegator styles and completed a questionnaire rating personalities by J. Eysenck-S.B.G., which assesses the dimensions of personality introversion, extroversion, psychoticism, and neuroticism.

The results indicated a significant relationship between different styles of teaching and extroverted personality, and concluded that the more extrovert the teacher is, the more they will tend to apply a more delegatory style of teaching.