STUDY OF PROFESSIONAL COMMITMENT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS OF PUNJAB WITH RESPECT TO TYPE OF SCHOOLS

Abstract

The major purpose of this research was to understand the Professional Commitment among secondary school teachers of Punjab. The sample was drawn from the regions of Punjab namely Mahja, Malwa and Doaba. From each region two districts had been selected. From the Majha regions two districts i.e. Amritsar and Pathankot; from Malwa region two districts i.e. Ludhiana and Patiala and from Doaba region two districts i.e. Jalandhar and Kapurthala had been chosen to collect data for the present work.  Total 16 schools were selected out of which eight schools were taken from rural and eight schools from urban areas. Further out of these eight schools four Government and four Private schools were selected.  From each school 10 teachers were selected. So total number of teachers selected from 6 districts of Punjab formed to be 960. The random sampling technique was used data. In the present study, Professional Commitment (PC – Saini& Kauts;2016)a standardized tool was used to collected data. Further data were subjected to Mean, Standard Deviation, Standard Error of Mean, Standard Error of Mean Difference and t-ratios. The results of the study indicated that, the private secondary school teachers were professionally higher committed than government  secondary school teachers on all dimensions of Professional Commitment i.e. commitment to learner, commitment to society, commitment to own profession, commitment to own dimension, commitment to  attaining excellence, commitment to basic human valuein Punjab.