Teachers’ Demographic Characteristics and their Effectiveness in Secondary Schools in Kole District, Uganda:
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2014-11
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Kampala International University, School of Education, Open and Distance and E-learning
Abstract
The study aimed at finding out the difference between teachers’ demographic
characteristics and their effectiveness in secondary schools in Kole District, Uganda. The
constructs for demographic characteristics were gender, marital status, age, educational
qualifications and the number of years of teaching experience; while the constructs for
teachers’ effectiveness were lesson delivery, teacher-student relationship and syllabus
coverage. To measure the difference between teachers’ gender and their effectiveness in
secondary schools in Kole District, Uganda;To assess the difference between teachers’
marital status and their effectiveness in secondary schools in Kole District, Uganda; To
measure relationship between teachers’ ages and their effectiveness in secondary schools
in Kole District, Uganda. To find difference between teachers’ educational qualifications
and their effectiveness in secondary schools in Kole District, Uganda;To assess
difference between teachers’ number of years of teaching experience and their
effectiveness in Kole District, Uganda and To examine different between school in Kole
and their teachers effectiveness. The 110 teachers and 200 students were sampled using
non probability purposive techniques. Structured questionnaires for teachers and four
scale questionnaires for students were used to collect the relevant data for the study. The
findings by inferential statistics indicated that there is no difference between teachers’
gender, and their effectiveness, no difference between teachers’ marital status and their
effectiveness. Negative difference between teachers’ ages and their effectiveness and
significant difference between teachers’ number of year of teaching experience and their
effectiveness. There is a difference between different schools in Kole and their teacher’s
effectiveness. It was generally concluded that there is weak difference between teachers’
demographic characteristic and their effectiveness. Two major recommendations made
are that efforts should be made to identify and address real determinants of teachers’
effectiveness; and that promotions and rewards to teachers should be based more on their
effectiveness than on their demographic characteristics. In other words there is no
difference between gender and teacher’s effectiveness.
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A Thesis Submitted to the College of Higher Degrees and Research in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Award of the Degree of Master in Educational Management and Administration of Kampala International University.
Keywords
Teachers, Demographic Characteristics, Secondary Schools, Kole District