Perceptions of High School Principals about Teacher Motivation in in the Metropolitan Area of Medellin, 2015

Abstract

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

• Percepción de la motivación
• motivación docente
• directores y directoras escolares
• escuelas públicas y privadas.