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Relation between aging and rated teaching effectiveness of academic psychologists
K L Horner1, H G Murray, J P Rushton
1University of Western Ontario, London, Canada.
Psychology and Aging
|June 1, 1989
Abstract:
Within a combined cross-sectional and longitudinal design, several analyses showed that student-rated teaching effectiveness in university professors declined with age. For 106 full-time psychology teachers, aged 26 to 55, who were studied for time periods ranging from 2 to 15 years, an overall negative correlation of r = -.33 (p less than .05) was found between age and general teaching effectiveness. A similar decrement with age occurred for items measuring specific teaching behaviors. Age accounted for 8% of the variance in general teaching effectiveness.