PROMOTION AND RECOGNITION AS PREDICTOR OF TEACHERS’ COMMITMENT IN PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN ABIA STATE

Abstract

The paper examined promotion and recognition as predictor of teachers’ commitment in public senior secondary schools in Abia State. Two research questions and two corresponding hypotheses were formulated to guide the study.The design of the study was correlation whilepopulation of the study was 550 vice principals in 275 public senior secondary schools in Abia Statewith a sample size of 275 vice- principals in 138 public senior secondary schools in Abia State who were selected using proportionate stratified random sampling technique. Instrument used for collection of data for the study was a 16 item questionnaire titled ‘Promotion and Recognition Questionnaire’ (PRQ) and a 15 item questionnaire titled ‘Teachers’ Job Commitment Questionnaire’ (TJCQ) for the dependent and independent variables of the study. The questionnaire was validated by two experts in the Department of Educational Management, University of Port Harcourt. Cronbach alpha was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaire with co-efficients of 0.86 and 0.76 for the independent variable and 0.86 for the dependent variable. The questionnaire was administered by the researcher. Simple regression was used to answer the research questions while t-test associated with simple regression was used to test the hypotheses at 0.05 alpha level. The findings of the study showed a moderate positive relationship of r=0.60 between promotion and teachers commitment as well as r=0.39 between recognition and teachers commitment in these schools. It was recommended among others that promotion should be given to teachers when due and on merit to enhance teachers commitment.