Abstract
In the present study, 178 high school students first indicated how effective they felt their teachers were, and then completed the Survey of Interpersonal Values as they felt that their teachers would if the latter were responding frankly. The students followed the same procedure with a second teacher of their choice. As had been hypothesized, teachers who were considered to be the more effective tended to have attributed to them higher Benevolence and lower Recognition and Leadership scores on the survey. In prior research, these same interpersonal values characteristics had been attributed to counselors judged to be the more effective. Whether more effective teachers manifest those characteristics or simply have those characteristics attributed to them is a matter for future research to determine.
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