Determinants of teachers’ turnover in public secondary schools in Kahama district, Tanzania
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Date
2013
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
Abstract
Although the government has been addressing turnover of teachers in Tanzania with
concerted efforts, the turnover is still occurring in public secondary schools. The
study was done to determine the extents to which various factors influence turnover
study was conducted to: determine the magnitude of turnover; explore factors which
influence teachers’ turnover; and determine associations between various factors for
turnover and turnover itself. It was hypothesized that the chances of turnover are not
the same for teachers with various factors, including financial, socio-cultural,
organizational and personal. A total of 120 respondents with a teaching profession
background were involved in the study. The data were analyzed using the Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.0. whereby the analytical model was
binary logistic regression. In the model, the dependent variable was teachers’
turnover where: “no turnover” (0) and “turnover” (1). The findings showed that the
magnitude of teachers’ turnover from secondary schools was 7%; relatively low
salary payment being the leading factor and was significantly associated with
turnover at the 0.1% level of significance (p < 0.001). Using a chi-square test; and,
using binary logistic regression, the impact of security status at working and living
places of teachers on the chances of turnover occurring was significant (B = -0.849,
Wald statistics = 4.006, p = 0.045). In view of these findings, it was concluded that
teachers’ turnover is high in Kahama District and influenced by many factors to quit
the teaching job, the main ones being low security status at working and living places
of teachers and relatively low salary payments. Based on this conclusion, secondary
schools should be improved regularly to meet living standards that keep on changing.
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Keywords
Secondary schools, Turnover of teachers, Socio-cultural, Kahama district