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Visible Learning MetaX
Version 1.4 – Updated February 2026

Teacher personality

Overview

  • Influence: Teacher personality
  • Domain: Teacher
  • Sub-Domain: Teacher attributes
  • Potential to Accelerate Student Achievement: Likely to have positive impact
  • Influence Definition: As with student personality, the typical personality factors investigated are openness to experience, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism.

Evidence

  • Number of meta-analyses: 3
  • Number of studies: 44
  • Number of students: NA
  • Number of effects: 122
  • Weighted mean effect size: 0.27
  • Robustness index: 2

Meta-Analyses

Meta-Analyses
Journal Title Author Article Name Year Published Variable Number of Studies Number of Students Number of Effects Effect Size
Educational Research Review Klassen & Tze Teachers' Self-Efficacy , Personality, and Teaching Effectiveness: A Meta-Analysis 2014 Teacher personality and achievement 12 NA 12 0.16
Conference paper Maddocks, Osman, & Patall Teacher enthusiasm and student outcomes: A meta-analysis 2017 Teacher enthusiasm 20 NA 98 0.32
Review of Educational Research Abrami, Leventhal, & Perry Educational Seduction 1982 Expressiveness of teacher 12 NA 12 0.29
TOTAL/AVERAGE 44 NA 122 0.26
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