Professional Commitment and Attitude towards Teaching of Effective Secondary School Teachers

This study sought to established factors influencing the professional commitment of public secondary school teachers in Trans-Nzoia West sub-county, Kenya. It adopted a descriptive correlational research design. Stratified random sampling was used to obtain categories of schools that best represent the entire population being studied. Cluster sampling technique was employed where all the 109 teachers from 10 randomly selected county schools, 58 teachers from the extra-county school and 67 teachers from the national school participated in the study. A total of 192 questionnaires were returned, giving a response rate of 82%. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis. It was found that there is a significant direct relationship between teachers’ professional commitment and their attitudes towards the teaching profession, beliefs about student learning, value systems and their evaluation of the school culture. These variables account for 83.6% of the variance in the professional commitment. It is therefore recommended that the schools should continue to find ways to enhance teachers’ attitudes towards the teaching profession, beliefs about students’ learning and value systems and the school culture in order to boost the teachers’ professional commitment.

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Job Satisfaction of Teachers In Relation to Professional Commitment

International Journal of Indian Psychology ◽

10.25215/0404.007 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 4 (4) ◽

Author(s):

Liyaqat Bashir

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Secondary School ◽

Role Model ◽

Secondary School Teachers ◽

Professional Commitment ◽

School Teachers ◽

Satisfaction Scale ◽

Male And Female ◽

Significant Difference ◽

Meaningful Interaction

Teaching is a highly noble profession and teachers are always a boon to the society. The ultimate process of education could be simplified as a meaningful interaction between the teacher and the taught. The teacher thus plays a direct and crucial role in molding a pupil towards education. Since a teacher is a role model for the students, job satisfaction and professional commitment of teachers become very vital in the fields of education. Thus the researcher felt the need to investigate the job satisfaction in relation to professional commitment of secondary school teachers. The sample of this study consisted of 300 teachers selected from Punjab in India. Job Satisfaction Scale standardized by Dr. (Mrs.) Meera Dixit (1993) and Professional Commitment scale developed by Dr. Ravinder Kaur and Sarabjit Kaur (2011) was administered to collect the data. The result indicates that there exists a significant difference between male and female secondary school teachers in their job satisfaction and there exists no significant difference between male and female secondary school teachers in their professional commitment. Further result shows that there exists positive significant relationship between job satisfaction and professional commitment. This proves that job satisfaction and professional commitment are significantly related to each other.

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Professional Commitment Of Effective And Less Effective Secondary School Teachers In Kashmir.

International Journal of Advanced Multidisciplinary Scientific Research ◽

10.31426/ijamsr.2018.1.6.617 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 1 (6) ◽

pp. 63-68

Author(s):

Rayees Ahmad Dar

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Effective Teachers ◽

Random Sampling ◽

Secondary School Teachers ◽

Teaching Profession ◽

Professional Commitment ◽

School Teachers

This study examined the professional commitment of effective and less effective secondary school teachers in Kashmir. The sample for the study consists of 800 secondary school teachers which were collected by random sampling. Professional commitment scale developed by Ravinder Kaur and Sarbjit Kaur was used. The results of the study showed that the effective secondary school teachers have more professional commitment towards their teaching profession as compared to less effective teachers.

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Professional Commitment of Secondary School Teachers in relation to their Self-Efficacy

Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities ◽

10.34293/sijash.v7i1.420 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 7 (1) ◽

pp. 35-38

Author(s):

Hadiya Habib

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Self Efficacy ◽

Teacher Educators ◽

Secondary School Teachers ◽

The Self ◽

Professional Commitment ◽

School Teachers ◽

Male And Female ◽

Significant Difference ◽

The Relationship

In the present investigation, an attempt has been made to study and compare the Professional Commitment of secondary school teachers, to study and compare the Self-efficacy of secondary school teachers and to find out the relationship between Professional Commitment and Self-efficacy of secondary school teachers. A sample of 100 teacher educators working in government schools of district Ganderbal was selected through Purposive sampling technique. Professional Commitment Scale for teacher educators by Sood (2011) and Teacher Self-efficacy scale by Ralf Schwarzer, Gerdamarie S.Schmitz and Gary T. Dayter (1999) were used for data collection. Mean, SD and t-test were used to compare the professional commitment of male and female secondary school teachers and to compare self-efficacy of male and female secondary school teachers. Pearson’s correlation was applied to find out the relationship between Professional Commitment and Self-efficacy of secondary school teachers. The findings of the study revealed that female secondary school teachers have higher professional commitment as compare as to male secondary school teachers. No significant difference was found in the Self-efficacy of secondary school teachers and significant positive correlation was found between Professional Commitment and Self-efficacy of secondary school teachers.

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Model of organizational abilities among secondary school teachers

International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) ◽

10.11591/ijere.v9i2.20549 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 9 (2) ◽

pp. 407

Author(s):

Dona Ningrum Mawardi ◽

C. Asri Budiningsih ◽

Sugiman Sugiman ◽

Habibi Habibi

Keyword(s):

Job Satisfaction ◽

Organizational Commitment ◽

Secondary School ◽

Job Performance ◽

Rating Scale ◽

Secondary School Teachers ◽

Professional Commitment ◽

Sampling Techniques ◽

Correlation Model ◽

School Teachers

This study confirms the correlation model constructed among organizational abilities variables of secondary school teachers. The organizational abilities variables are: organizational commitment, and professional commitment, job satisfaction, and job performance. The samples are secondary school teachers selected using purposive sampling techniques. Data were collected through a rating scale questionnaire (1-5) and analyzed using Lisrel 8.0 program. The results show that professional commitment has a significant effect on organizational commitment and job satisfaction with values of 2.72 and 2.60. Other findings that organizational commitment and job satisfaction have an effect on job performance with values of 2.36 and 2.02. Empirically, the results concluded that the correlation among the variables theoretically fulfilled the fit criteria.

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