TEACHING EFFECTIVENESS OF UNIVERSITY TEACHER`S IN RELATION TO THEIR SENSE OF HUMOUR

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to study the relationship between Teaching effectiveness and Sense of Humourof university teachers of Haryana state. The study was conducted on a sample of 200 University teachers from various universities situatedin Haryana state. Teacher effectiveness scale constructed by the investigator and Teacher`s Sense of humour scale by Malik and Kapoor were used to asses Teaching effectiveness and Sense of humour of university teachers. Causal comparative method of research and Random sampling technique was used in the study. The result indicated that teachers with high sense of humour were found to be more effective teachers than with average sense of humour and low sense of humour. The study further reveals that female teacher`s with high sense of humour had more teaching effectiveness as compared to female teachers with average sense of humour and low sense of humour whereas Male teachers with average sense of humour were found to be more effective teachers than male teachers with high sense of humour and low sense of humour. It also has been observed that there was positive correlation between Teaching effectiveness and Sense of Humour of University teacher`s. This was also supported by Sarita(2015) in her study on teaching effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their Sense of Humour. Malik (2017) in his study “A study of Teaching effectiveness of secondary school teachers in relation to their sense of humour and socio-economic status” found a positive correlation of 0.199 between Teaching effectiveness and Sense of Humour.