A, Hamid. (2002). A Study of the Accountability of Secondary School Teachers in Relation to their Job – Satisfaction and Morale. Unpublished. Ph.D., Education. Maharshi Dayanand Saraswati University, Ajmer.
The objectives of the study were: (1) To develop a scale to determine the accountability of secondary school teachers. (2) To study teachers’ accountability in secondary schools in the dimensions: Towards teaching Profession, towards school, towards pupils, towards classroom activities, towards co–curricular activities, towards society and towards national policies and programmes. (3) To study the effect of following independent variables on the secondary school teachers accountability: (a) Type of school (Boys and girls Schools), (b) Management of secondary school (Government and non - government school), (c) Location of school (Urban and rural schools), (d) Sex (Male & female teachers), (e) Teaching Experience and (f) Caste. (4) To investigate the job satisfaction of various groups of secondary school teachers. (5) To analyse the morale of various groups of secondary school teachers. (6) To explore the relationship between accountability and job satisfaction of various groups of secondary school teachers. (7) To study the relationship between accountability and morale of various groups of secondary school teachers. (8) To familiarize the education department, the headmasters and secondary school teachers with the salient features of the result of the present study and to encourage them to modify their school practices and teaching behaviour so as to modify the teaching - learning activities among secondary school teachers.
The study had following hypothesis: (1) There is no significant difference in the theoretical and computed means of total sample of secondary teachers on teacher accountability scale, teacher job – satisfaction scale and teacher morale inventory. (2) There is no significant effect of the following groups on teacher accountability scale (a) Type of school, (b) Management of school, (c) Geographical location of school, (d) Sex, (e) Teaching Experience, and (f) Caste. (3) There is no significant effect of the following groups such as sex, type of school, teaching experience and caste on teacher job – satisfaction. (4) There is no significant effect of the above groups on teacher morale inventory. (5) There is no significant relationship between teacher accountability and job satisfaction, teacher accountability and morale, teacher morale and job – satisfaction of total sample of secondary school teachers. (6) There is no significant relationship between teacher accountability and job satisfaction, teacher accountability and teacher morale, teacher morale and job – satisfaction of secondary school teachers of the following groups: (a) Type of school, (b) Management of school, (c) Geographical location of school and (d) Sex.
The sample comprised of 720 Secondary School Teachers from 114 Secondary School of Jaipur, Alwar, Bharatpur, Dausa, Dholpur and Sikar. The sample was selected with the help of Random Sampling Technique.
Teachers Job – Satisfaction Scale (TJSS) by Dr. S.P. Gupta and J.P. Srivastava, Teacher Morale Inventory (TMI) by Dr. Saroj Pandey, and Teacher Accountability Scale (Spilt-half reliability coefficient = 0.85) developed by researcher were used for data collection.
The research study was Descriptive in nature.
The data were analyzed with the help of t - Test, ANOVA and Correlation.
The findings of the study were: (1) The teachers of boys secondary schools were found to be significantly more accountable than the teachers of girls school. (2) The teachers of government secondary schools were found to be significantly more accountable than the teachers of non – government school. (3) The urban & rural, teaching experience and caste of secondary school teachers has no significant effect separately on teacher accountability. (4) The male teachers have more accountability than the female secondary teachers. (5) The teachers of boys & girls, government & non – government, rural & urban, male & female, teaching experience and groups of caste did not differ significant separately in respect of their job – satisfaction. (6) Boys & girls, government & non - government, geographical location, sex, teaching experience and groups of caste of secondary school teacher have no significant difference separately on teacher morale inventory. (7) The coefficient of correlation between teacher accountability and job satisfaction of total sample of secondary school teacher was found positive & insignificant. (8) The coefficient of correlation between teacher accountability and teacher morale of total sample of secondary school teachers was positive & not significant, and is also found that no significant effect of type of secondary school, and Management of school. (9) There was positive & insignificant relationship between teacher accountability and teacher moral separately of rural & urban male & female secondary teachers. (10) The coefficient of correlation between teacher morale & job satisfaction of total sample of secondary school teachers was found positive and not significant. (11) The coefficient of correlation between teacher morale and job satisfaction of urban & rural secondary school teachers was found positive and insignificant.
Keyword(s): Accountability, Secondary School Teachers, Job – Satisfaction, Morale, Teaching & Teachers' Behaviour