EVALUATION OF TEACHERS’ LIFE SATISFACTION AND INDIVIDUAL PERFORMANCE PERCEPTION LEVEL
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https://doi.org/10.18316/rcd.v16i44.12062Keywords:
Individual Performance, Life Satisfaction, TeacherAbstract
Teachers‘ life satisfaction is effective on teaching process and students’ learning process. Teachers' life satisfaction and individual performance perception levels directly affect the educational process and quality of education. The aim of the study is to determine the life satisfaction and individual performance perception levels of preschool teachers and to evaluate them according to demographic characteristics. The study employed the life satisfaction scale and the individual performance scale to gather data. The SPSS Program was used to analyze the data that were obtained from the study. First of all, information about the demographic characteristics of the participants was presented. In order to reveal whether there were problems related to the distribution of the data, kurtosis, skewness, mean and standard deviation values were examined, and the reliability levels of the factors were also tested. Correlation analysis, Mann-Whitney-U Test for differences according to demographic variables and Kruskal-Wallis H Test Tests were used to determine the relationship between the variables. As a result of the research, It was determined that teachers' life satisfaction averages were at a very high level and their individual performance perception levels were at a medium level. In the results of the difference test, It was determined that life satisfaction and individual performance perception levels of teachers differed statistically according to graduated school, branch and age, but not according to duty region and education level. It was also determined that the individual performance perception levels of teachers did not differ according to income, while there was a statistically significant difference between life satisfaction and income.
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