Commitment to Teaching as a Profession by Ohio Teachers of Vocational Agriculture. Summary of Research 45.

Autor/inn/en	Etuk, Lugard A.; McCracken, J. David
Institution	Ohio State Univ., Columbus. Dept. of Agricultural Education.
Titel	Commitment to Teaching as a Profession by Ohio Teachers of Vocational Agriculture. Summary of Research 45.
Quelle	(1987), (17 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Agricultural Education; Individual Characteristics; Occupational Information; Secondary Education; State Surveys; Teacher Characteristics; Teacher Persistence; Teaching (Occupation); Vocational Education; Work Experience; Ohio + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Agriculture; Education; Landwirtschaftliche Ausbildung; Landwirtschaft; Ausbildung; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Berufsinformation; Sekundarbereich; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Berufsbildung; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung
Abstract	A study investigated the major factors--demographic characteristics, job characteristics, and work experiences--related to commitment to teaching as a profession among Ohio teachers of vocational agriculture. The population was a random selection from the Ohio secondary school teachers of vocational agriculture listed in the 1983-84 directory. Mailed questionnaires resulted in an 81 percent return. Findings indicated that none of the demographic characteristic variables demonstrated either a substantial or a very strong relationship with the dependent variable, commitment to teaching as a profession. Job characteristic variables as a set failed to explain a significant unique portion of the variance in the dependent variable. A moderate positive relationship was found between commitment to teaching as a profession and feedback. The collective set of work experience variables explained a significant unique proportion of variance in the dependent variable. Most had a significant relationship with commitment to teaching as a profession, including vocational agriculture teacher cohesion, group attitudes toward the teaching profession of vocational agriculture, realization of expectation, first-job challenge, personal importance, and self-image. These variables were found to be the best predictors of commitment to teaching as a profession by Ohio teachers of vocational agriculture: personal importance, first-year job challenge, vocational agriculture teachers' cohesion, and self-image. (YLB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC