Abstract

REYES MANRIQUE, Marlene Edith. Relationship between Teacher’s Social Skills and Teaching Performance from the Point of View of Adult Students at a private university in Lima, Peru. Rev. Digit. Invest. Docencia Univ. [online]. 2016, vol.10, n.2, pp.17-31. ISSN 2223-2516.  http://dx.doi.org/10.19083/ridu.10.465.

The purpose of this study was to analyze the relation between social skills (SS) and teaching performance (TP) based on the perception of university students. Two 25-item Likert scales were prepared, with four dimensions validated through the judgment of experts. The sample was of 100 students of a private university in the city of Lima of ages between 21 and 46 years. The dimensions of the SS are: assertive communication, leadership, conflict resolution and planning. The dimensions of the TP are: teaching ability, emotionality, responsibility adult in the performance of their functions and interpersonal relationships. The Cronbach’s alpha of ^students, dimensions the results reaches acceptable levels of .97 for SS and .95 for TP. The correlation between both constructs was carried out by applying the Spearman’s rho correlation coefficient, reaching a rs of .74 for the interscale correlation that indicates a linear, positive, and moderately strong correlation, as well as correlations greater than .80 between TP and the dimensions of the SS. The implications of the results found are discussed.

Keywords : social skills; teaching performance; private university; adult students; dimensions.

        · abstract in Spanish | Portuguese     · text in Spanish     · English ( pdf ) | Spanish ( pdf )