TEACHER MOTIVATION: A STUDY ON TEACHERS OF INSTITUTIONAL SCHOOLS OF LALITPUR SUB-METROPOLITAN AREA

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to examine the intrinsic and extrinsic motivation of secondary level teachers of institutional schools of Lalitpur sub metropolitan area. Furthermore, this study was conducted with the view to know whether the demographic factors like age, gender, marital status, qualification, training and length of service of the teachers affect their intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. The researcher followed positivistic paradigm to carry out this quantitative research. All 980 secondary level teachers of institutional schools of Lalitpur sub metropolitan area were the population of this study. Survey questionnaire was used as the main tool to collect the primary data from the field. Prior to the implementation, the questionnaire was piloted twice and subjected to reliability and validity test. The questionnaire was then distributed to randomly selected 360 secondary level teachers of 100 different institutional schools of Lalitpur sub metropolitan area. The data thus collected was analysed using the tools of SPSS like frequency, mean, standard deviation, t-test and ANOVA. This study showed that the secondary level teachers of institutional schools of Lalitpur sub metropolitan area were intrinsically motivated in all the three factors of intrinsic motivation. Similarly, they were also found to be extrinsically motivated in all the five different factors of extrinsic motivation. Based on the findings of this study, the researcher has drawn some implications to the different stakeholders of institutional schools like, academic administrators, policymakers and the teachers. In the final part of this dissertation, the researcher has given some recommendation to the future researcher.