An Evaluative Study Of Professional Commitment And Job Satisfaction Of Effective And Less Effective Secondary School Teachers In Kashmir

Abstract

This study examined the professional commitment of effective and less effective secondary school teachers in Kashmir. The sample for the study consists of 800 secondary school teachers which were collected by random sampling. Professional commitment scale developed by Ravinder Kaur and Sarbjit Kaur was used. The results of the study showed that the effective secondary school teachers have more professional commitment towards their teaching profession as compared to less effective teachers. The results also revealed that effective teachers are more committed to their jobs and also show positive commitment both towards students as well as progressive betterment of society. Job satisfaction in the present study refers to the set of scores obtained by the sample subjects on the job satisfaction scale developed by Singh and Sharma (2009).