Psychological Development and Education ›› 2002, Vol. 18 ›› Issue (4): 70-75.

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Hierarchical Analysis of the Impact of Context Variables on the Teaching Effect

LIU Hong-yun, MENG Qing-mao   

  1. Institute of Psychology, Beijing Normal University Beijing 100875
  • Online:2002-10-15 Published:2002-10-15

Abstract: This paper measured the effect of 182 college teachers' teaching using questionnaire of assessment of college teacher's teaching effect.The method of HLM is used to analyze the impact of teacher-level context variables on the effect of teaching.The teacher-level context variables which we considered are teacher's gender,age,educational level,the student's major of teaching,the student's grade of teaching,size of class and the type of course.The purpose of this paper is more reasonablely analysis the impact of teacher-level context variables on the evaluation of teacher's teaching effect using the method of HLM.Therefore we can compare the evaluation result of different teachers objectively.We drew the follow conclusion: (1) The result of using HLM is more reasonable and accurate than using the traditional method of regression analysis and ANOVA; (2) The impaction of teacher-level context variables,such as teacher's gender,educational level,the students major of teaching and the class size,is not significant.(3) The teacher-level context variables,such as the teachers'technological title,age,students' grade of teaching and the course type of teaching have the significant impact on the evaluation effect of teaching.(4) The explanation ratio of teacher-level context variables to the total variation between 33.51 percent and 42.78 percent.

Key words: Hierarchical Linear Model, Educational Assessment, Intra-correlation

CLC Number: 

  • C444.1
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