An Influence of Certain Psycho-Sociological Factors on Teacher Effectiveness of Primary School Teachers

Statement of the problem The present investigation entitled An Influence of certain psycho-sociological factors on Teacher Effectiveness among Primary School Teachers of Chittoor District, A. P. was undertaken. i. To assess the general level of Teacher Effectiveness of Primary School Teachers. ii. To find the relation between different independent, personal, demographic and personality variables and teacher effectiveness of Primary School Teachers. Since this problem envisages the investigation of the Teacher effectiveness of the primary school teachers in relation to the variables such as attitude towards teaching, job satisfaction, job involvement, home environment, personality characteristics and some personal-demographic variables viz. , gender, locality, management, experience, age, qualifications, size of the family, etc. , The statistical treatment of the data reveals the following major findings of the study. A. Frequency Distribution i. The mean teacher effectiveness score of the primary school teachers is 432.35 where the neutral point of the scale is 300.00. Hence, the teacher effectiveness of the primary school teachers is above average. The values of mean, median and mode of the distribution is 432.35, 447.00 and 450.00 respectively. There is a gap among these three values. Therefore, the distribution is following the normal distribution with slight difference. ii. The values of Skewness and Kirtosis of the attitude scores of the teachers are 1.031 and 0.570 respectively. Hence, the distribution of the teacher effectiveness scores for the whole group of teachers is slightly negatively skewed and Lepto Kurtic.