A Study on Qualities of Teachers/Professors Across the Discipline (A Meta Analysis)

The qualities and competencies of a teacher/professor significantly influences the teaching-learning process, directly impacting the student engagement, academic performance, and overall educational success. The present study aimed to identify and rank the most valued qualities of teachers/professors based on students' perspectives. The undergraduate students of first year and fourth year has been considered as subjects. The data has been taken from the study conducted by Assistant Professor Tuğba Hoşgörür in Mugla University, Faculty of Education, Mugla, Turkey. The data was arranged in rank order to obtain the importance of the qualities needed for a teacher or a professor. The analysis revealed five primary qualities, namely, patience, tolerance, having wide general knowledge, subject matter expertise and just, among these, patience and tolerance were ranked as the most critical qualities. These findings emphasize that while subject expertise and fairness are important, interpersonal traits but patience and tolerance are perceived as the most essential qualities for effective teaching. This highlights the growing value of emotional intelligence in academic settings and its impact on student learning experiences as students seems to be more sensitive and required emotional safety and needed to be less judged by others.