Determinants of teachers’ turnover in public secondary schools in Kahama district, Tanzania
| dc.contributor.author | Rwamatunguru,Ephraim Kaijuko | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-09-08T06:23:48Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-09-08T06:23:48Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2013 | |
| dc.description | Dissertation | |
| dc.description.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. | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://www.suaire.sua.ac.tz/handle/123456789/6959 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | |
| dc.publisher | Sokoine University of Agriculture | |
| dc.subject | Secondary schools | |
| dc.subject | Turnover of teachers | |
| dc.subject | Socio-cultural | |
| dc.subject | Kahama district | |
| dc.title | Determinants of teachers’ turnover in public secondary schools in Kahama district, Tanzania | |
| dc.type | Thesis |