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Research Study – Published: July 29, 2014


Problems Faced by Postgraduate Biology Teachers and their Job Satisfaction

Sivakumar, D., & Minnel Kodi, B.
ABSTRACT
For teachers to achieve their professional goals effectively, they must experience satisfaction in various aspects of their work. It is essential for teachers to recognize that the objectives they set will remain mere intentions unless they make conscious efforts to accomplish them through their teaching. For those who teach science in schools, it is an appropriate time to conduct a survey-based research study to identify the challenges faced by biology teachers and to assess their level of job satisfaction. In the present study, the investigator selected 120 postgraduate biology teachers using simple random sampling technique. After framing necessary objectives and hypotheses, appropriate analysis was carried out for the collected data. From the analysis it was found that: (1) Male and female postgraduate biology teachers do not differ significantly in their problems in teaching. (2) No significant difference exists between teachers from rural and urban areas regarding teaching-related problems. (3) A significant difference exists among postgraduate biology teachers working in government, aided, and unaided schools in their problems related to methods of teaching.
Keywords: Postgraduate Biology Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Teaching Problems, Gender Differences, Urban-Rural Differences, School Management, Teaching Methods, Educational Research, Survey Study, Teacher Challenges.
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Sivakumar, D., & Minnel Kodi, B. (2014). Problems faced by postgraduate biology teachers and their job satisfaction. Indian Educational Researcher, 7(2), 20–33.
Received: June 14, 2014; Revision Received: July 15, 2014; Accepted: July 28, 2014.