Abstract
The study investigated teachers’ commitment for the administration of public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. Design adopted for this study was descriptive survey research design. Population of the study was 7425 teachers (3854 males and 3571 females) while 380 teachers (198 male and 182 female) were sampled for the study using multistage sampling technique. The instrument used for data collection was a 26 item questionnaire titled “Teachers Commitment for School Administration Questionnaire” (TCSAQ). The instrument was validated by three experts; two in Measurement and Evaluation and one in Educational Management. Cronbach Alpha was used to determine the internal consistency of the instrument with an index of 0.86 which was considered sufficient for the study. The research questions were answered using mean and rank order while z-test was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study showed a high level commitment to teachers work and students academic performance for the administration of public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. It was recommended that the government should endeavour to provide sufficient educational resources to promote teachers commitment. Keywords: Teachers, Commitment, Administration, Secondary Schools, Rivers State DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-16-07 Publication date: June 30 th 2021
Highlights
According to Thompson in Ssali (2011) “commitment is an engagement or obligation” that is to say, the state of being willing to give a lot of time to do something
This study explores the role of teacher commitment in student achievement and focuses on differences passionate teachers make, and points out the effects of passion on effective learning and teaching
The test of hypothesis proved that there was no significant difference in the mean scores of male and female teachers with regards the level of commitment of teachers to their profession in public secondary schools in Rivers State as the null hypothesis one was accepted in disfavour of the alternate hypothesis
Summary
According to Thompson in Ssali (2011) “commitment is an engagement or obligation” that is to say, the state of being willing to give a lot of time to do something. According to Ssali (2011), people are committed to their job when they have sense of belonging, sense of excitement, punctual and regular to work; cooperation amongst staff and management. According to Anwar et al (2016), the strength of any profession depends up on the degree of commitment of its members. Committed teachers have a tendency to perform the roles effectively as their job requires and to establish a good teacher-student relationship in accordance with the professional values. This approach facilitates student learning and development of terminal behaviors. The basic goals and values of teaching profession effectively shape student behavior change in accordance with the principles of education sciences (Cagri 2013a; Elijah et al, 2019)
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