Do You Like Your Teachers? A Quantitative Research on Students’ Perceptions of Teacher Gender Characteristics

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210806.053How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Gender, Students’ preferences, Teachers’ characteristics, Chinese high school

Abstract

This paper explored Chinese high school students’ preferences towards their teachers’ characteristics by gender, and verified some traditional gender stereotypes in line with students’ preferences. As a quantitative study, questionnaire in Likert-scale has been used and 874 valid responses are collected to identify students’ preferences of their male and female teachers. The characteristics addressed by survey do partially verify some gender stereotypes and bias but not extremely obvious. Moreover, the results show that students commonly think female teachers are more considerate and sharp-eyed than male teachers, and most of students prefer male teachers teach science-related class. Furthermore, they do not enjoy old teachers’ classes especially old female teachers’ classes. Generally, students tend to support their same-gender teachers in classroom. All findings offer an insight into the students’ gender preferences and a lack of gender education in the high school stage.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Jiaxin Chen
AU  - Keyi Zhang
AU  - Xinyu Wang
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - Do You Like Your Teachers? A Quantitative Research on Students’ Perceptions of Teacher Gender Characteristics
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 280
EP  - 287
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.053
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.053
ID  - Chen2021
ER  -