Teachers’ Motivational Variables as Predictors for Attainment of Sustainable Development Goals in Public Senior Secondary Schools in Rivers State
Keywords:
Motivation, Sustainable development, Intrinsic factors, Extrinsic factorsAbstract
The study investigated the relationship between teachers’ motivation and attainment of sustainable development goals in public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. Four research questions were posed to guide the study and three hypotheses formulated and tested at 0.05 level of confidence. The study adopted the correlational survey design. The population of the study was 6,893 teachers in the 286 public senior secondary schools in Rivers State. The sample population of the study was 2,073 teachers. The sample represented 30% of the population. A stratified random sampling technique was used for the study. The instrument for data collection was a questionnaire titled: Teachers’ Motivation Questionnaire (TMQ) and Sustainable Development Goals Questionnaire (SDGQ). Face and content validity of the instrument was done four experts. The reliability was established through test re-test method which yielded a correlation index of 0.85. The instrument was administered directly by the researcher. Means and standard deviation scores were used to answer the research questions one while research question two and three were answered using correlation coefficient. Multiple Regression was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 level of significance.
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