The relationship between the job characteristics of the teaching profession and school effectiveness

A school is effective as long as it achieves its goals. The main purpose of every innovation made in schools is to provide a better, more qualified and more effective education. The increasing of autonomy of teachers, the teachers' roles and responsibilities, the importance of teaching profession, the competence of teachers and the performance feedback they receive play important roles in qualifying a school as effective. Therefore, in this research, it was aimed to determine the relationship between the job characteristics of the teaching profession and school effectiveness. For this purpose, according to the opinions of teachers working in primary and secondary schools, is there a relationship between the job characteristics of the teaching profession and school effectiveness? was the research question of this research. Focusing on the relationships between variables, this research was carried out with teachers working in official primary and secondary schools in the city center of Uşak. The population of the research consisted of 1962 primary and secondary school teachers working in the center of Uşak. The research sample was determined by the convenient sampling method and 376 teachers were included in the research. The School Effectiveness Index was used in this research was developed by Hoy (2009) and rearranged by Demirkasimoğlu and Taşkın (2015) for measuring teachers' perceptions of school effectiveness and the Job Characteristics of Teaching Profession scale developed by Polat and Özdemir (2018) for measuring teachers' views on the job characteristics of teaching profession were used. Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Pearson Product Moment Coefficient, One-Way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA), Independent Samples t-Test and Hierarchical Regression analysis were used for statistical analysis of the data. According to the results of the analysis, it was concluded that there is an important and strong relationship between the job characteristics of the teaching profession and the effectiveness of the school. Especially, teaching autonomy, teaching performance feedback, and teaching roles and responsibilities which are sub-dimensions of job characteristics of the teaching profession, play an important role on school effectiveness. Keywords: School effectiveness, Job Characteristics, Teaching Autonomy, Teaching Roles and Responsibilities, Teaching Performance Feedback, Teaching Competence, Importance of Teaching Profession