The Relationship between Teachers' Attitude toward the use of electronic content and educational technology with the job satisfaction of the first grade teachers in the junior high schools of Galehdar city.

Subject Areas : Education

sayedahmad hashemi ¹ (Associaye professor, Department of Education Sciences, Lamerd Branch,Islamic Azad University,LAMERD, Iran)

Received: 2020-01-02 Accepted : 2020-01-18 Published : 2020-02-20

Keywords: Job Satisfaction, educational technology, electronic content, Teachers' attitude,

Abstract :

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the use of electronic content and educational technology with the job satisfaction of the first grade teachers in the junior high schools of Galehdar city. In terms of purpose and nature, the research method was the applied method and in terms of the data collection procedures, the research method was descriptive-correlational.The statistical population of the study includes all the first grade teachers of the junior high schools of Galehdar city who were teaching in the schools of this city during the school year 1397-98. In this study, 152 individuals were selected using stratified sampling method.Two standard questionnaires of teachers' attitude toward using electronic content and job satisfaction were used for data collection.The validity of both questionnaires were confirmed by the experts and their reliability were respectively 0.826 and 0.816, through Cronbach's alpha test. Our data were analyzed by using descriptive statistics, Pearson correlation coefficient and standard multiple regression. The results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between attitude towards using electronic content and educational technology with teachers' job satisfaction. The findings also showed that up-to-date and efficient electronic content and educational technology, motivation and mastery of teachers in using educational media motivate their students to learn.

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