Evaluation and Research in Education
Editor: Professor Keith Morrison, Inter-University Institute of Macau
Associate Editor: Professor Stephen Gorard, University of York
Statistical Adviser: Professor Colin Baker, University of Wales Bangor
Reviews Editor: Dr. Emma Smith, University of York
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Volume: 12 Number: 2 Page: 61–71
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The Quality of Teachers' Professional Lives: Teachers and Job Satisfaction
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Helen Fraser, Janet Draper and Warwick Taylor
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Using data drawn from teachers with 5, 10 and 15 years of experience, this article examines specific aspects of job satisfaction and compares data from the different cohorts of teachers at different stages
in their careers. It shows that teachers are very much in agreement about how they rate different facets of teaching in terms of satisfaction and there are particularly high correlations about the most
and least satisfying aspects. It also shows that teachers with longer service are overall less satisfied with teaching, and on some specific aspects of satisfaction, differences are statistically significant.Only
on two aspects,'recognition of efforts'and 'influence over school policies' are there notable gender differences, women being more satisfied with the former and men with the latter. Interestingly, however,
secondary teachers are notably less satisfied than primary teachers with their 'influence over school policies', and primary teachers rank lower their satisfaction with the 'balance between work and personal
life'. Whether or not teachers are in promoted posts divides views somewhat with, for example, satisfaction with 'colleagues' views of teaching being much more highly ranked by non-promoted teachers.
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