Abstract
The study wants to determine the relationship between the cognitive and affective attitudes of teachers toward research and their intention to conduct research. To support and strengthen the study, theories on human attitude, human behavior, the relationship between attitude and behavior, the nature of academic research and related studies were discussed. The study used descriptive correlational method of research design and aided by fact finding inquiry. The population of the study were 150 teachers of Divine Word Colleges in Ilocos Region. Validated questionnaires were used to gather the data and to treat the data statistically, mean, and Pearson r were used. Mean was to measure the level of cognitive and affective attitude of teachers toward research and their behavioral intention to conduct research in the future and Pearson r was used to determine the correlation between cognitive and affective attitude toward research and intention to conduct research. The study found that teachers have high attitudes on positive cognition and affection toward research and moderate level on negative cognition and negative affection toward research. Both, cognitive and affective attitude toward research (positive and negative components) correlates to the behavioral intention to conduct research. Thus, the study recommends to strengthen cognitive and affective attitude toward research and minimize their negative attitude toward research through continuous training on research methodology.
Highlights
Research has been considered as one of the indicators of quality education
Hypothesis Ajzen (1985, 1987), Ajzen & Madden, (1986) have argued that attitudes affect the human behavior and base on this theory, the current study argues that attitudes of teachers toward research affect their behavioral intention to conduct research in the future
The study wanted to determine the relationship between cognitive and affective attitude of teachers toward research and their behavioral intention to conduct research, to answer the following questions: Problem 1: 1. What is the cognitive attitude of teachers toward research in terms of a
Summary
Research has been considered as one of the indicators of quality education. Quality and innovative instruction should be the output of research. Just like in other industries, innovative product or services are the product of research. It is the basic reason of why every industry or business must have research unit. It is based on the belief that there is nothing new or new development as coming out of the blue without research. Research-based universities can make a difference from others that are not
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