FACTORS INFLUENCING PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT OF PUBLIC SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN TRANS-NZOIA WEST SUB-COUNTY, KENYA
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2021-06
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This study established factors influencing professional commitment of public
secondary school teachers in Trans-Nzoia West sub-county, Kenya, based on the
theory of good policy, effective medium theory, and the theory of Teleologism and
Deontologism. Descriptive and correlational research designs were used with
stratified random sampling. Cluster sampling technique was employed where all
the109 teachers from 10 randomly selected county schools, 58 teachers from the
extra-county school and 67 teachers from the national schools who were present
during the time of data collection participated in the study. 192 questionnaires were
returned giving a response rate of 82%. Data were analyzed using descriptive
statistics, t-test for independent samples, Mann-Whitney U test, one-way analysis of
variance, Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient, and multiple regression
analysis. Findings were: Public secondary school teachers were positive towards their
professional commitment, have positive belief about student learning and value
system, tend to have a positive attitude towards teaching profession, and rated their
school culture as excellent with means of 3.67, 3.46, 3.72 and 3.98, respectively.
Female and younger teachers, those who have served between 6 to 10 years, and who
hold bachelor‘s degrees are more committed to the teaching profession with p-values
less than 0.05 (0.000). There is a significant direct relationship between teachers‘
professional commitment and their attitudes towards teaching profession, beliefs
about student learning, value system, and their evaluation of the school culture
accounting for 83.6% of the variance in professional commitment. It is recommended
that schools continue to find ways to enhance teachers‘ attitudes towards the teaching
profession, beliefs about student learning, and value system, and the school culture in
order to boost the teachers‘ professional commitment.