The overall job satisfaction and the curriculum satisfaction of the teachers at the second cycle of public elementary schools

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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 teachers̕ 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 teachers̕ curriculum satisfaction in terms of teaching subject. When the teachers̕ choice for a new career was considered, there was a significant difference between the teachers̕ overall job satisfaction and between their curriculum satisfaction.

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Teaching Personnel.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/14414

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E. T. Gençer, “The overall job satisfaction and the curriculum satisfaction of the teachers at the second cycle of public elementary schools,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2004.