TEACHER MORALE

According to Vecchio (1991), low job morale (the extent to which employees perceive attaining goals and objectives associated with their job situation as meeting their needs) has been found to be associated with high levels of job absences, tardies, turnover and employee burnout. These same findings generalize to public school teachers (Evans, 1992).

A number of factors have been observed to contribute to variance in teachers' morale levels. In this regard, Raudenbush, Rowan and Kang (1991) report that teacher morale levels have been observed to vary in association with differences in school size and school location as well as in association with differences in teachers' ages, gender, years of schooling, and highest level of education. The problem, however, with these findings is that most of the studies examining teacher morale have not utilized samples of private or parochial school teachers.

Given that private schools provide schooling to over 37 percent of America's young people and that this trend is increasing owing to growing parental dissatisfaction with public schools (Papalia & Olds, 1992), it can be seen that gaining a complete understanding of teacher morale in the private or school is imperative. Clearly what is needed is a study that determines whether the findings of existing research on teacher morale (findings deriv

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ership is comprised of 300 secondary school teachers working in Hawaii and the Western United States. However, as pointed out by Kiess and Bloomquist (1985), in order for mailed survey findings to be representative of the population to whom the mailings were sent, there is a need for a return rate of at least 60 percent. Without an acceptable return rate, there is a strong change that findings will represent only those at extreme levels of job morale (very high and very low). Since one of the strong needs of this study is to make sure that there is a good deal of variability in teacher morale (studies with homogeneous morale levels do not evidence relationships with demographics), something must be done about this limitation. In order to make sure that an acceptable rate of return is obtained, several steps will be taken. First, a letter will be sent along with the mailings that emphasizes the importance that teachers return their completed instruments. Second, after a two-week period, those instruments that have not been returned will be tallied. The researcher will then send another mailing to these teachers; this mailing will include another copy of the test instruments and a second letter reminding them of the impo
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