Teacher Morale and Job Satisfaction in the Special Education Environment

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dc.contributor.advisorBrager, Dr. Gary
dc.contributor.advisorBrennan, Sarah
dc.contributor.authorFader, Shoshana
dc.contributor.departmentSecondary Special Educationen_US
dc.contributor.programMasters of Educationen_US
dc.date.accessioned2020-07-20T21:55:41Z
dc.date.available2020-07-20T21:55:41Z
dc.date.issued2020-07-20
dc.description.abstract“Morale and attitude are the fundamentals to success” (Bud Wilkinson, 1916-1994). When you consider morale, some concepts that come to mind are positive culture, collaboration, teamwork, efficiency, balance, progress, respect, training concerns, mentorship, compensation, and improvement. These are all of key importance to increase morale in the workplace. This research was conducted to gain a deeper understanding of the importance of morale and the benefits for teachers, students, and the educational workplace when high positive morale and job satisfaction are reached and maintained. The null hypothesis of this action proposed that there is no single contributor to low morale and job dissatisfaction that seems to be more prevalent than others. In addition, this research also examines whether the key contributors to low morale and job dissatisfaction vary depending on demographics, such as number of years of teaching or age of the individual. A statistical analysis was conducted which resulted in identifying Dissatisfaction with Teacher Salary and Lack of Community Support of Education as the two factors that seem to have the greatest negative effect on morale. An analysis of the demographic differences showed there were statistical differences in morale scores, as well. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, there were limited number of subjects studied which made it challenging to obtain more definitive results.en_US
dc.format.extent95 pagesen_US
dc.genreaction research papersen_US
dc.identifierdoi:10.13016/m2skqm-2ttx
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11603/19201
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.relationMaster of Education
dc.relation.isAvailableAtGoucher College, Baltimore, MD
dc.rightsThis work may be protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. To obtain information or permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Goucher Special Collections & Archives at 410-337-6347 or email archives@goucher.edu.
dc.subjectmoraleen_US
dc.subjectspecial educationen_US
dc.subjectPurdue Teacher Opinionnaireen_US
dc.subjecteducationen_US
dc.subjectjob satisfactionen_US
dc.subject.lcshEducation -- Research papers (Graduate).
dc.titleTeacher Morale and Job Satisfaction in the Special Education Environmenten_US
dc.typeTexten_US

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