INVESTIGATION OF ACADEMIC OPTIMISM OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Carmen Popa

Volume : VI, Issue : III, March - 2016

INVESTIGATION OF ACADEMIC OPTIMISM OF PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS. DESCRIPTIVE STUDY

Carmen Popa

Abstract :

The present study intends to observe the academic optimism of teachers who work in the Primary Education System, in schools located in Bihor County (N=180), Romania, by presenting their results for the Academic Optimism of Schools Scale, designed by Hoy, W. and his collaborators. The results are presented starting with the descriptive indicators – average, standard deviation, and continuing with the global score of the scale depending on the variables: teaching experience, the grade they teach, graduation studies. Research data show a higher level of academic optimism for teachers having more than 20 years of teaching experience, for those who teach 1st grade and 4th grade and also for the teachers having a master’s degree. There were lower values of academic optimism for teachers having between 11 and 20 years of teaching, those who teach multi–age grades and those who gaduated only a pedagogical high school.