Abstract

• This study investigated students’ perception on the characteristics of effective teachers at the Basic Education High Schools in Sagaing Township, Sagaing Region. A total of 392 Grade-10 students (male=194, female=198) were selected as participants from three Basic Education High Schools in Sagaing Township, using simple random sampling method. Descriptive research design was used. In questionnaire, it has two main parts: demographic data and 25 items for studying students’ perception on the characteristics of effective teachers. The five domains of the Effective Teacher Surveys are Lesson Planning and Preparation, Classroom Environment, Instruction, Professional Responsibility and Personal Characteristics. The students’ perception on the characteristics of effective teachers was examined by using the Effective Teacher Surveys (25 items) developed by Hadley (2011) based on Charlotte Danielson’s Framework for Teaching. Descriptive Statistics, one way ANOVA and Independent Sample t-test were used to analyze the data. Regarding the findings of data students from school B had the highest mean value (͞X=3.05) among three selected Basic Education High Schools. There were significant differences in students’ perception on the characteristics of effective teachers grouped by school (df = 2, F = 6.688, p<.001), gender (t = -2.467, p<.05) and subject combination (t= 5.451, p<.001).The results showed that the perception of students from school B was highest among selected three schools; the perception of female students was better than that of male students; and the perception of pure science students was better than that of eco-science students.