Teachers and students’ perceptions on the characteristics of effective teachers: the role of content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and skills, and trait emotional intelligence

Abstract

International research has shown that teachers play a crucial role in students’ success. In recent years, Kazakhstan has implemented a range of reforms that aim to enhance teachers’ status and the quality of teaching in the country. Therefore, greater understanding of the characteristics that define effective teachers is needed to design teacher education initiatives that lead to improvement of education quality. This quantitative, cross-sectional design study set out to investigate the perceptions of 125 teachers and 434 students from a region in northern Kazakhstan on the characteristics that define the effective teachers in terms of content knowledge, pedagogical knowledge and skills, and trait emotional intelligence...