Work related factors and teachers` commitment : a study on remedial class teachers in the West Coast of Sabah

Abstract

The aim of this quantitative research was to explore the work related factors and teachers’ commitment of Remedial Class Teachers in performing their duties to implementing remedial education program. There are several work related factors influencing the profession as perceived by Remedial Class teachers. It also examines the teacher commitment and to investigate the relationship between teachers’ commitment and the work related factors. This study was conducted at the west coast of Sabah. The survey questionnaire was completed by 140 teachers by using simple random sampling which included three sections. Section A is about demographic of respondents, section B is about the work related factors which consist of school administration, parental factor, student factor, teacher factor and workload related factor. While section C is about teachers’ commitment. The Descriptive statistics was used to examine the current level of the work related factors as perceived by Remedial Class Teachers as well as teachers commitment. The Pearson Product-Moment Bivariate Correlation Coefficient analysis was employed to investigate if there was significant relationship between Remedial Class Teachers with the work related factors. In addition, the Multiple Regression analysis was used to study the work related factors in combination influence teacher’s commitment. The findings of this research show that the current level of work related factors as perceived by remedial Class Teachers has moderate to high level. While the current level of teachers commitment shows at high level (4.44). Furthermore, the result indicated that there are significant relationships between teachers’ commitment with the work attributes. Whereas the last finding revealed that 53.2% of the variation in the teacher’s commitment is explained by the work related factors. Based on the findings of the study, it is recommended that the Ministry of Education should take into consideration to give an incentive to Remedial Class Teachers as well as given training and workshop to enhance the teaching professionalism. High teachers’ commitment will contribute to school performance. The future research should consider on the comparison between teachers commitment with the gender and teaching experience.