Introduction:

University teaching is central to understand higher education processes. Although human, attitudinal or personality aspects of teachers usually appear in West as central characteristics of a good teacher, there are no instruments to measure these personal attributes of faculties.

Aim:

To present making process of Teacher Attributes Questionnaire (TAQ) and the evaluation of validity and reliability of its scores when it is applied in university students in Chile.

Subjects and methods:

A quantitative, non-experimental and cross-sectional study was carried out. 595 students from six different health degrees and three universities in Chile participated in this study. They answered the TAQ plus a sociodemographic questionnaire, with prior informed consent. To evaluate validity of TAQ, an exploratory factor analysis was used. To assess its reliability, Cronbach's alpha was carried out.

Results:

Factor analysis identified two factors: teacher personal attributes (Cronbach's α = 0.98) and teacher formal attributes (Cronbach's α = 0.60). Both were statistically correlated.

Conclusions:

Present study shows evidence that support validity and reliability of TAQ as a tool to measure in a differentiated way the personal and formal attributes of teachers, although it is necessary to deepen the response validity process and improve reliability of formal teacher attributes factor.

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