Development of work values scale for senior secondary school teachers

Abstract

The present study was aimed to develop a scale of Work Values for senior secondary school teachers. After consultation with various experts in different fields of Education, the blue print of the scale was developed. At initial level of the construction of the scale the work values tool for senior secondary school teachers consisted of 59 statements on the basis of previous studies related to the concept of work values. The preliminary draft of the tool consisted of 59 statements initially and before item analysis these statements were administered to a sample of 200 senior secondary school teachers for pilot study. After the analysis of the collected data, 28 statements were selected but some items (statements) having same sense were merged in 2 or more factors with the help of SPSS. After data analysis 25 items, were finalised that were broadly categorised into 4 categories. The validity and reliability of the items were also found. The reliability of the test was calculated by using split-half method.