DEVELOPMENT AND VALIDATION OF INSTRUMENT FOR MEASURING JOB SATISFACTION AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL TEACHERS IN NIGER STATE

📄 Project Abstract

This study was designed to develop and validate an instrument for measuring job satisfaction among secondary school teachers in Niger State. The study sought to examine the job satisfaction level of teachers from the federal, state and private owned secondary schools and the influence of gender of the teachers on job satisfaction. The researcher utilized instrumentation research design. A questionnaire ''Job Satisfaction Scale for Teachers'' (JSST) made up of 72 items was developed and administered to a population of 1400 secondary school teachers drawn randomly from Seven Education Zones of Niger State through multi- stage sampling procedure. Five research questions and two null hypotheses were used to guide the study. Data collected with the draft copy of the instrument were subjected to construct validation using factor analysis with Varimax rotation. Data were also analyzed using Cronbach Alpha () and descriptive statistics of t-test, mean and standard deviation. One-way analysis o...