The attitude of teachers toward students and school work in the high schools of the Diocese of Dumaguete

• Main Author: Cabataña, Edilberto C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Animo Repository 1979
• Subjects: Teachers > Psychology; Educational Psychology
• Online Access: https://animorepository.dlsu.edu.ph/etd_masteral/697
• Institution: De La Salle University

This is a descriptive research using the opinions of the respondents to determine their attitudes towards students and school work. The instrument used was an inventory of teacher attitudes that the researcher constructed himself. The inventory was pretested. There are twelve member schools in the Dumaguete Diocesan School System. This includes all Catholic schools in the province of Negros Oriental and Siquijor owned and operated by the Diocese of Dumaguete. A sample of nine schools were drawn from the system for purposes of this research and the sampling technique used was simple drawing of lots. All the teachers in each of the nine schools were included in the sample. The teacher-respondents made up 67% of the teacher-population in the system. Statistical treatment used were the mean, ranking, frequency, standard deviation, Z-score, t-score, Pearson Product Moment Correlation Coefficient, ANOVA and t-test. From the findings of the study, the following conclusions were drawn: 1. Teachers in the Dumaguete Diocesan School System tended to be halfway between being warm and cold in their dealings with their students. This signified recognition on the part of the teachers of the students' worth. But the teachers also wanted that students should be dealt with strictly, that there were rules for them to follow. The respondents also believed that students should know the reasons behind the rules. 2. The respondents showed little confidence in their students' abilities. 3. The teachers showed very human characteristics in their responses. 4. The teachers tended to be traditional as regards classroom discipline. 5. The teachers also tended to be traditional in their attitudes toward the evaluation of students' progress. 6. The teachers of the Dumaguete Diocesan School System were divided as to the merits of the Progressive school. 7. The attitudes of high school teachers in the Diocese of Dumaguete were not significantly correlated with age, teaching experience, faculty size and enrollment. 8. The attitudes of the teach