| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立暨南國際大學 === 終身學習與人力資源發展碩士學位學程碩士在職專班 === 101 === This study intended to inquire the perception of job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations and the retirement attitudes of mid-age and older elementary school teachers in Taichung City. This study also sought to analyze the correlations between job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations and retirement attitudes. The main purposes of the study are as follows:
1.To understand the perception of job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations and the retirement attitudes of mid-age and older elementary school teachers in Taichung City.
2.To understand the differences of job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations and the retirement attitudes resulted by different backgrounds of mid-age and older elementary school teachers .
3.To understand the correlations between job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations and retirement attitudes.
4.To analyze the predictive ability of job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations toward retirement attitudes.
To achieve the aforesaid purposes, the study adopted questionnaire survey research. The study is based on the mid-age and older teachers in public primary schools in Taichung City. The participants were 505 elementary school teachers; 421 questionnaires were collected; 405 valid questionnaires were collected; the response rate is 80.2%. SPSS 12.0 is used as major tool for descriptive statistics, t-test, one-way ANOVA, Pearson product-moment correlation and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The conclusions of the study were as follows:
1. The mid-age and older elementary school teachers’ job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations are above the average, among which the highest score was “professional ability”.
2. The mid-age and older elementary school teachers’ retirement attitudes are above the average, among which the highest score was the “emotional aspect”.
3. Perceived job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations of the mid-age and older elementary school teachers, showed significant differences among background variables, such as educational level, position and past participation with evaluations.
4. There were significant differences in the perception of retirement attitudes with the different background variables of the mid-age and older elementary school teachers, such as gender, age, educational level and seniority .
5. There were significant positive correlations in the perception degrees between job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations and retirement attitudes of the middle-age and older elementary school teachers.
6.There was significant predictability in retirement attitudes of the mid-age and older elementary school teachers by the perceived degrees of job stress related to teachers’ professional development evaluations, based on “work loads” and “professional expectations”.
According to the conclusions, this study provides some suggestions for educational authorities, the elementary school teachers and the future researchers.
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