Concerns Of Teachers With Respect To Experience Sex And Qualification The Case Of Addis Ababa Region

Concern in teach ing denotes the tendency of being more preoccupied about a given aspectrnof teaching than to another. In this study an attempt is made to look at the variation of itsrnoccurrence interrns of levels of experience (:S 5 years, 6-14 years, C 15 years), sex (male, female)rnand qualification (Diploma, TIl) of teachers.rnQuestionnaires were given to 503 teachers who were instructors of 25 selected schoolsrnfrom Addis Ababa region from which 425 questiOtUlaires were collected. After removing thosernwhose initial and latcr qualification appeared different and those who were attending furtherrneducation, only 249 were found most appropriate for the study. By random sampling 120 wererntaken from this target population; 10 from each cluster of experience, sex and qualification.rnThe multi variate and univariate analyses indicated a significantly higher level of selfrnconcern for less experienced teachers. Also females were found to haw higher self concern thanrnmales with no variation for the qualification levels. Regarding task concern both medium andrnhighly experienced teachers depicted greater concern compared to less experienced ones though therndifference between the two was non-significant. Also sex as well as qualification differences werernnon-significant.rnAs to student concern, highly experienced teachers showed a statistically higher concernrnover less experienced teachers while the difference with medium experienced teachers was nonsignificant.rnDifference interms of sex was observed for female teachers showing higher studentrnconcern than male teachcrs. But no difference was observed between Diploma and TIl qualifiedrnteachers. Based on these results, possible explanations, conclusions and recommendations werernmade.

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