Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in Education
Teacher education is recognized as the process of improving teaching practices. During their postgraduate studies, aspiring teachers are encouraged to improve both their teaching practice and their working conditions. Therefore, an expectation for their Masters’ degrees is that upon graduation, they...
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| author | Carlos Alfredo Pérez Fuentes Annie Julieth Alvarez Maestre Angela María Cardona Rivas Andrea Johanna Aguilar Barreto Ruth Katherine Sanabria Alarcón |
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| description | Teacher education is recognized as the process of improving teaching practices. During their postgraduate studies, aspiring teachers are encouraged to improve both their teaching practice and their working conditions. Therefore, an expectation for their Masters’ degrees is that upon graduation, they can achieve job satisfaction. This study had a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional and correlational non-experimental research design. Its objective was to analyze the level of job satisfaction of working teachers after graduating with a Master’s degree in Education, and with this, to correlate sociodemographic variables with the level of job satisfaction. As an information-collection technique, the Job Satisfaction Scale for Teachers (ESLA) was used, which has reliability for internal consistency of 0.88 in Cronbach’s alpha. The results show that teachers graduating with a Master’s degree in Education score significant levels of job satisfaction, ranging between high and moderate, confirming that, as in other studies, with greater possibilities of qualification and teacher preparation, job satisfaction is maintained or generated. The statistical hypothesis testing method of inferential statistics confirmed that moderate and high levels of job satisfaction can be maintained in working teachers after graduating from postgraduate training, without implying relationships with gender, the type of hiring, doctoral degrees, type of contracts or the type of educational institution where they work. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-4de95d78abba42fea41e9eb07efce7132023-11-16T20:09:18ZengMDPI AGEducation Sciences2227-71022023-02-0113219810.3390/educsci13020198Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in EducationCarlos Alfredo Pérez Fuentes0Annie Julieth Alvarez Maestre1Angela María Cardona Rivas2Andrea Johanna Aguilar Barreto3Ruth Katherine Sanabria Alarcón4Doctorado en Educación y Estudios Sociales Facultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales, Tecnológico de Antioquia Institución Universitaria, Medellín 050034, ColombiaPsychology Department, Tecnológico de Antioquia Institución Universitaria, Medellín 050034, ColombiaFacultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales, Tecnológico de Antioquia Institución Universitaria, Medellín 050034, ColombiaFacultad de Educación y Ciencias Sociales, Tecnológico de Antioquia Institución Universitaria, Medellín 050034, ColombiaHealth Sciences, UCAM-Universidad Católica San Antonio de Murcia, 30107 Murcia, SpainTeacher education is recognized as the process of improving teaching practices. During their postgraduate studies, aspiring teachers are encouraged to improve both their teaching practice and their working conditions. Therefore, an expectation for their Masters’ degrees is that upon graduation, they can achieve job satisfaction. This study had a quantitative approach with a cross-sectional and correlational non-experimental research design. Its objective was to analyze the level of job satisfaction of working teachers after graduating with a Master’s degree in Education, and with this, to correlate sociodemographic variables with the level of job satisfaction. As an information-collection technique, the Job Satisfaction Scale for Teachers (ESLA) was used, which has reliability for internal consistency of 0.88 in Cronbach’s alpha. The results show that teachers graduating with a Master’s degree in Education score significant levels of job satisfaction, ranging between high and moderate, confirming that, as in other studies, with greater possibilities of qualification and teacher preparation, job satisfaction is maintained or generated. The statistical hypothesis testing method of inferential statistics confirmed that moderate and high levels of job satisfaction can be maintained in working teachers after graduating from postgraduate training, without implying relationships with gender, the type of hiring, doctoral degrees, type of contracts or the type of educational institution where they work.https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7102/13/2/198job satisfactionteacher educationteacher training |
| spellingShingle | Carlos Alfredo Pérez Fuentes Annie Julieth Alvarez Maestre Angela María Cardona Rivas Andrea Johanna Aguilar Barreto Ruth Katherine Sanabria Alarcón Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in Education Education Sciences job satisfaction teacher education teacher training |
| title | Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in Education |
| title_full | Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in Education |
| title_fullStr | Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in Education |
| title_full_unstemmed | Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in Education |
| title_short | Job Satisfaction and Teacher Education: Correlational Study in Postgraduate Graduates in Education |
| title_sort | job satisfaction and teacher education correlational study in postgraduate graduates in education |
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