Concerns of Teachers With Respect to Experience, Sex and Qualification: The Case of Addis Ababa Region
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2000-06
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Concern in teach ing denotes the tendency of being more preoccupied about a given aspect
of teaching than to another. In this study an attempt is made to look at the variation of its
occurrence interrns of levels of experience (:S 5 years, 6-14 years, C 15 years), sex (male, female)
and qualification (Diploma, TIl) of teachers.
Questionnaires were given to 503 teachers who were instructors of 25 selected schools
from Addis Ababa region from which 425 questiOtUlaires were collected. After removing those
whose initial and latcr qualification appeared different and those who were attending further
education, only 249 were found most appropriate for the study. By random sampling 120 were
taken from this target population; 10 from each cluster of experience, sex and qualification.
The multi variate and univariate analyses indicated a significantly higher level of self
concern for less experienced teachers. Also females were found to haw higher self concern than
males with no variation for the qualification levels. Regarding task concern both medium and
highly experienced teachers depicted greater concern compared to less experienced ones though the
difference between the two was non-significant. Also sex as well as qualification differences were
non-significant.
As to student concern, highly experienced teachers showed a statistically higher concern
over less experienced teachers while the difference with medium experienced teachers was nonsignificant.
Difference interms of sex was observed for female teachers showing higher student
concern than male teachcrs. But no difference was observed between Diploma and TIl qualified
teachers. Based on these results, possible explanations, conclusions and recommendations were
made.
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Teachers With Respect