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A Study on Teacher Effectiveness in Relation to Attitude Towards Teaching Profession
The main purpose of this study is to examine the relationship of teacher effectiveness and attitude towards teaching profession and to compare the attitude of effective and ineffective teachers towards teaching profession. In this study questionnaire survey method was employed. The subjects were confined to the teachers(Senior Teacher, Junior Teacher and Primary Teacher) from Basic Education High Schools and Basic Education High Schools (Branch) in Waingmaw Township. The number of participants in this study was 322. Two research instruments, questionnaire for teacher effectiveness and questionnaire for attitude towards teaching profession were used in this study. These instruments were based on Teacher Effectiveness Scale developed by Kumar and Muthaand Attitude Towards Teaching Scale by Sujata Mishra. The values of Cronbach’s alpha coefficient of the two questionnaires were 0.93 and 0.87 respectively. Pearson correlation coefficient and the independent t-test were applied to analyze each research hypothesis. The results reveal that teacher effectiveness correlates positively with attitude towards teaching profession. The results also show that there was significant difference between effective and ineffective teachers in relation to their attitudes towards teaching profession. Furthermore, the results show that effective teachers do not differ in their attitude towards teaching profession in terms of gender and experience. Like effective teachers, ineffective teachers do not differ in their attitude towards teaching regarding gender and experience