The purpose of this study was to assess the overall job satisfaction and the
curriculum satisfaction of the teachers teaching Mathematics, Turkish, Social
Studies, Natural Sciences, and Foreign Language at 6-8 grades of public elementary
schools. A questionnaire developed by the researcher was used as the data collection
instrument of this study. All the teachers working at the 6-8 grades of the public
elementary schools in Turkey and teaching Mathematics, Turkish, Social Studies,
Natural Sciences, and Foreign Language constituted the population of the study. The
total number of the teachers who constituted the sample was 720. The data gathered
was analyzed by SPSS program / descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, and
one-way ANOVA. The results showed that the teachers were satisfied in terms of
overall job satisfaction, however, quite undecided in terms of curriculum satisfaction.
According to the results of the study, there was a significant difference between the
teachers&rsquo / overall job satisfaction in terms of age, marital status, educational
background, work experience, lesson load, and motive for choosing teaching
profession, but no difference in terms of their gender, number of courses taught, and
teaching subject. The results also showed that there was a significant difference
between the teachers&rsquo / curriculum satisfaction in terms of teaching subject. When the
teachers&rsquo / choice for a new career was considered, there was a significant difference between the teachers&rsquo / overall job satisfaction and between their curriculum
satisfaction.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12605374/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 August 2004 |
| Creators | Tuzemen, Eda |
| Contributors | Ok, Ahmet |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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