TY - JOUR JF - gums-rme JO - RME VL - 9 IS - 3 PY - 2017 Y1 - 2017/10/01 TI - Good Teacher's Characteristics and its Influence on Dental Students Academic Motivation In Guilan University of Medical Sciences TT - ویژگی های یک استاد خوب و تأثیر آن بر انگیزه تحصیلی دانشجویان دندانپزشکی N2 - Introduction: Training as the main responsibility of universities and teacher as the important factor in education is considered .Training display human abilities and in this regards, teacher because of its strength effect has the most important role. So, The aim of this study was to determine the characteristics of a good teacher and its influence on academic motivation of dental students in Guilan University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-sectional study has been done on 137 dental students of Guilan University of Medical Sciences in 2016. For gathering data, two questionnaires of good professors and academic motivation that their Validity and reliability were confirmed by experts were used. Collected data were analyzed by using structural equation model through PLS (partial least squares) software. Results: based on results, the most important features of good teacher include knowledge 0.86, character (0.84), communication (0.82), teaching method (0.79) and evaluation (0.68), ethics (0.60). Also academic intrinsic motivation with (0.84), self-motivation (0.78) and outer motivation (0.74) were the most important priority of the respondents respectively. The average score of student's academic motivation in the range of 1 to 5 values was 3.37 which was at the optimum level. Also, in this research, the characteristics of the good teacher did not affect the students educational motivation Conclusion: Characteristics of good teacher at the Faculty of Dentistry in Guilan University of Medical Sciences did not affect the academic motivation of the students. So, in employing and empowering faculty members sample master's indexes should be considered. SP - 18 EP - 10 AU - Esmaeili, M R AU - Hozni, S A AU - Mosazadeh, B AU - Zavareh, A AD - Organization Behavior Phd Student of Management, Faculty of Economics And Administration University of Lorestan, Khoramabad, Iran KW - Medical Education KW - Motivation KW - Student KW - Dental KW - Good Teacher UR - http://rme.gums.ac.ir/article-1-471-en.html DO - 10.29252/rme.9.3.18 ER -