Research in Medical Education

  Introduction: Teaching is the interaction between teacher and student, based on a systematic and purposeful program designed by teachers to change students behavior. Effectiveness means evaluation of efficiency of measures taken in order to achieve the predetermined goals. This study was carried out to determine the characteristics of effective teaching from the perspective of students.

  Methods: This descriptive- cross sectional study was conducted on 210 students of nursing, midwifery, operating room (master batch and continuous), Anesthesiology (master batch and continuous), radiology and laboratory sciences. For gathering data a questionnaire including demographic characteristics of students and the most effective teaching indicators in four areas of scholarship, teaching, communication ability and personal character was used. Collected data were analyesed using SPSS software and descriptive and inferential statistics (chi-square test) .

  Results: The results based on students view points showed that factors influencing the effectiveness of teaching students including: in teaching methodology area preparing students for discussion , reflection and discussion in class (50%), having knowledge and mastery on teaching subject (50%), in the field of strenght relationship with student, the students' participation in discussions (61%), and eloquent expression of basic characteristics of area (46%), respectively.

  Conclusion: From students perspective, strength relationship between teacher and student has the greatest impact on teaching effectiveness, so by concentrating more as well as using appropriate teaching methods, strengthening personal character and scholarship it is possible to achieve, teaching effectiveness and improve quality of education.