Hubungan antara personaliti dan gaya pengajaran guru dengan pencapaian matematik PMR satu kajian di sekolah menengah daerah Kota Tinggi

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to explore and identify the personality characteristics of teachers and teaching styles tend to be practiced among the mathematics teachers of Kota Tinggi area and to study the relationship between personality and styles of teaching. 132 teachers from 20 schools in Kota Tinggi were randomly selected as respondents. The study was conducted through a quantitative approach. Data collected through the questionnaire, translated from the Big Five Inventory (BFI) by John (1990) and Teaching Styles Inventory Grasha (1996). The BFI degree of reliability for the instruments was between 0.62 to 0.77, while for the teaching style‟s instrument was between 0.61 to 0.71. The frequency and means of the descriptive analysis were used for distribution analysis. Statistical inference of Pearson correlation analysis was used to analyze the relationship between teaching style and personality. The significant level is 0.05. The findings indicate that the most dominant personality dimension of teachers are Extraversion, followed by Neuroticism, Conscientiousness, Openness and Agreeableness. In addition, the study also showed that teaching styles that are likely to be practiced are personal teaching style model followed by the delegator teaching style, expert teaching style, facilitator teaching style and formal authority teaching style Results of correlation test showed a significant relationship between personality and teacher‟s teaching style.