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Aim: Impact of personality, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence on teacher effectiveness among high school teachers. Objectives: To assess the impact of personality, self-efficacy and emotional intelligence on teacher effectiveness among high school teachers. Sample: 800 high school teachers working in government and private schools in Nandyal district of Andhra Pradesh state were selected. Tool: Teacher effectiveness was assessed by teacher effectiveness rating scale designed and developed by Umme Kulsum (2006), The Emotional Intelligence scale developed by Nutankumar Thingujam and Usha Ram (1999), selfefficacy scale was developed by Copeland and Nelson (2004) and the personality scale was developed by Williams (1998) were used. Design: As there are three independent variables i.e., type of Personality (Type-A & B), self-efficacy (low and high) and emotional intelligence (Low & high), each is divided in to two categories, a 2 × 2 × 2 factorial design was employed. Statistical Analysis: The obtained data was analyzed statistically in order to test the hypotheses using Means, SDs and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were calculated. Conclusions: Teachers with high emotional intelligence are more effective in teaching compared with low emotional intelligence, teachers with high self-efficacy are more effective in teaching than teachers with low self-efficacy and teachers with type-A personality are more effective in teaching than teachers with type-B personality