HomePsychology and Education: A Multidisciplinary Journalvol. 12 no. 8 (2023)

The Level of Motivation and Teaching Performance of English Teachers: A Descriptive-Correlational Study

John Mark Javar | Dhan Timothy Ibojo

Discipline: Education

 

Abstract:

Motivation is an unseen indicator that contributes to the teaching performance of a teacher. This study aims to check the level of motivation and teaching performance of the teachers. In this descriptive correlational study, it included 83 English teachers from Compostela, Davao de Oro chosen through random testing. A survey questionnaire was used to determine the level of Motivation and Teaching Performance of the English Teachers respectively through google form (online) and printed survey questionnaire. Correlation was conducted to test if there is significant relationship between Motivation and Teaching Performance, the result was p- value is 0.000 less than 0.05 which is significant and R coefficient is 0.582 which means that there is a moderately positive correlation. The result showed that the level of Motivation of English Teachers is high and the level of teaching performance of English Teachers is very satisfactory. It is concluded that level of motivation among English teachers of Compostela, Davao de Oro is generally high, the level of Teaching Performance among English teachers of Compostela, Davao de Oro is generally very satisfactory and there is a significant relationship between motivation and teaching performance among teachers. The researcher suggests to replicate the study with a larger sample involving teachers from different institutions to gather rich data and more meaningful results.



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