Characteristics of the ideal teacher: a perception of the undergraduate students in Accounting sciences of a community university in the state of Santa Catarina

Abstract

The present research aimed to analyze these characteristics of the ideal teacher in the perception of the selected population of a community university in the state of Santa Catarina. As methodology, this study is classified as quantitative in terms of its approach, descriptive as to the objective and, with regard to procedures, it has a collection survey. As a data collection instrument, a validated questionnaire has been employed and used by Guelfi, Tumelero, Antonelli and Voese (2018), containing 34 questions about which characteristics define an ideal teacher. The population of this research was of 138 students, enrolled in 2018/2, resulting in a sample of 102 respondents, which represents 73.91% of the population. The data have been tabulated in Microsoft Excel software and descriptive and univariate statistics has been employed as analysis techniques, by means of relative frequency, mean, standard deviation, correlation and T-test, calculated with the IBM SPSS Statistics 22 software. As main results, we found that the most relevant characteristics indicated by students were: showing knowledge of the subject theory they are teaching, showing knowledge about the practice of the subject they are teaching and showing how to make a connection between theory and practice. The less emphasized characteristics are related to attributes and showing physical beauty, neatness (well-dressed, combed hair, always neat) and presenting a pleasant tone of voice.

Keywords

• professor ideal
• graduandos
• ciências contábeis.