Abstract

LOPEZ-ARELLANO, Hernán; VELEZ-SALAZAR, Mauricio  and  FRANCO-LOPEZ, Jorge Ariel. Perceptions of High School Principals about Teacher Motivation in the Metropolitan Area of Medellin, 2015. Educare [online]. 2017, vol.21, n.2, pp.107-129. ISSN 1409-4258.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15359/ree.21-2.5.

This study is an exploratory research with the purpose of measuring perceptions High School principals have about teachers’ motivation in four specific areas: facilities and institutional resources, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and social impacts. In this article, perceptions of principals working in public and private schools are compared. The authors designed and applied a five Likert-scale questionnaire to determine the perceptions of principals about motivation in their teacher staffs; the tool was implemented in fifty-one schools of the Metropolitan Area of Medellín, Colombia. Data show a higher favorability (i.e., categories with a better score) in private schools than in public ones.

Keywords : Perception about motivation; teachers’ motivation; school principals, public and private schools.

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