Teachers Caring Behavior and Its Relation with Students Achievement: The Case of East and West Gojjam Secondary Schools, Amhara Region, Ethiopia

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The study has tried to investigate the state of teachers caring behavior as perceived by their students and its relation with students’ achievement. Descriptive survey with correlational research design was employed. Questionnaire was developed to assess how frequent teachers demonstrate caring behavior. Quantitative data were collected through questionnaire from students and their 2019/2020 academic year first semester achievement records. SPSS version 26 was used to employ descriptive correlational analysis method, besides statistical mean was used to explain the state of caring behavior of teachers while correlation coefficient was employed to elucidate the relation between students’ perceived caring behavior of teachers and their achievement (Mathematic and English subjects result out of 100%). Thus, the following findings were obtained: the status of perceived teachers caring behavior is found at average level. For some considerable number of caring behavior indicators (items) the status is below the average. Concurrently, the relation between perceived caring behavior and students’ achievement is negative and with weak relation. However, differences were observed between female and male students regarding the trend of relation. While females’ is found positive, the males’ is negative, though the relations were weak for both of them. Keywords: Caring, teachers’ caring behavior, students’ achievement DOI: 10.7176/JEP/12-13-05 Publication date: May 31 st 2021

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