The Morale & Teaching Effectiveness of Junior College Teachers.

Autor/in	Cooper, John Frederick
Titel	The Morale & Teaching Effectiveness of Junior College Teachers.
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Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	College Faculty; Community Colleges; Community Support; Educational Attitudes; Educational Research; Job Satisfaction; School Surveys; Student Evaluation of Teacher Performance; Teacher Effectiveness; Teacher Morale; Two Year College Students; Two Year Colleges; Purdue Teacher Opinionaire + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Fakultät; Community college; Community College; Educational attitude; Bildungsverhalten; Erziehungseinstellung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Labor; Labour; Satisfaction; Arbeit; Zufriedenheit; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Teacher; Teachers; Morale; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Moral
Abstract	Following a review of the literature related to employee morale and productivity, this paper reports a study undertaken to determine if there was a significant relationship between the morale of junior college instructors and their teaching effectiveness as perceived by students. Study subjects were 129 junior college instructors and their students enrolled in college transfer programs. A modified version of the Purdue Teacher Opinionaire was used to identify teacher morale variables. Teaching effectiveness as perceived by students was determined using the Hinds (Mississippi) Junior College Faculty Evaluation Scale. A statistically significant relationship was found for the measures of satisfaction with teaching, community support of education, and total job satisfaction with the teaching effectiveness rating by students. It was concluded that instructors' perception of satisfaction with teaching was positively related to their teaching effectiveness, instructors' perception of community support of education had a negative relationship to teaching effectiveness, and total job satisfaction was positively related to teaching effectiveness. Other identified measures of teacher morale were not significant predictors of teaching effectiveness. These results may indicate that the most effective teachers are those with the greatest morale and job satisfaction. A bibliography is appended. (JDS)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC