A Correlation Study of Teachers’ Turnover and Students’ Achievement at Secondary Level at Lahore
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2017
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University of Management and Technolog
Abstract
Academic achievement of students is highly concerned with teachers' accessibility. There is a close relationship between teacher and student and this attachment sometimes helps them in good learning and sometimes can lead to their serious kind of loss in their academic achievement in the absence of the teacher. That is why teacher turnover has become an important issue all across the world. The teacher turnover issue arose as a significant problem that affects students' academic achievement and learning. The study was designed to find out the possible correlation of teacher turnover with student achievement at the secondary level of private schools of Lahore district. The study has determined the factors of teacher turnover in different schools of Lahore, moreover, the study has examined the relationship between teacher turnover and student achievement at the secondary level. The nature of the study was correlation and survey-based using the quantitative methods of data collection. The population of the study was consisting of private schools of Lahore district at the secondary level. The structured questionnaire was adopted containing 28 questions for the teachers and a four column performa was adopted for the schools' administration toexamine the students' achievement. Teacher turnover was represented by the number of teachers that were present in the schools in the starting of the academic session and the number of teachers that left at the end of the academic session. The student achievement was taken by the results of Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education of Lahore.Sampling technique was convenient. The data from the school administration was taken from (n=40) private schools of Lahore and the data from teachers was collected from (n=250) secondary teachers of Lahore district. The Data analysis was performed by using Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS). The t-test, ANOVA, and correlation were used to explain the different factors. The study resulted that there is positive as well as negative correlation between teachers' turnover and student achievement, in the session 2013-2014 there was a negative correlation between student achievement and teacher turnover, whereas in session 2015-2016 there was a positive correlation between the teacher turnover and student achievement. In the light of this study, it is recommended that school organizations should give proper instructional facilities and adequate salary to teachers to reduce the rate of teacher turnover.Future study can be conducted that will be based on this research that how to develop a strategy inorder to reduce teacher turnover at secondary level. This future research will help to reduce teachers' turnover and sustain student achievement.
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Supervised by: Dr. Muhammad Zaheer Asghar
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Turnover, achievement, Teacher turnover.Future study, M.Phil