Classroom Management, Teachers’ Attitudes, Self-confidence and Demography on In-Service Teachers’ Motivation: Its Implication to Quality of Education

Abstract

The study was aimed to assess the Classroom Management, Teachers’ Attitudes, Self- confidence and Demography on In-service Teachers’ Motivation: Its Implication to Quality of Education. Correlational research design was employed in carrying out the study. The population for this study consisted of a higher learning institution, Haramaya University’s three colleges-in-service teachers. 358 in-service teachers were sampled from 1078 through stratified random sampling. Descriptive and inferential statistics were used to analyze the quantitative data that have been collected through close ended questionnaires whereas the qualitative data gathered through observation checklists were analyzed thematically. The first finding was that 67.04% of the in-service teachers were felt anxious in managing the classroom; 81.84% of them were not able to understand and communicate their students; 78.77% of them did not select teaching profession by their own interest; 79.05% of them were either poorly or very poorly motivated to the teaching profession; another finding was that there was statistically a significant negative relationship between sex and teachers’ level of motivation. Finally, 63.20% (R²*100% of the variation on the quality of education is accounted for by teachers’ level of motivation and teachers’ attitudes towards teaching profession whereas the rest unexplained variables (1-R²)*100% was contributing 36.80% to deteriorating quality of education. To sustain the quality of education in the country, all concerning bodies in the study areas should search different mechanisms to (i) minimize teachers being anxious in the classroom, (ii) empower roles and responsibilities of teachers and (iii) increase teachers’ motivation through providing them with professional training, incentives to optimize quality of education in the country in general and the study area in particular.

Keywords: Department of Psychology, Haramaya University, and Quality-education