Mathematics Teachers' Perception on Their Profession

Abstract

This is a survey research related to find the mathematics teachers perception on teaching profession. The purpose of this research was to find the difference between mathematics teachers' perception on their profession on the basis of gender, the place of origin and stream of education.To accomplish this objective, the researcher used the purposive sampling design with stratified techniques. The sample of the study contained 110 secondary level mathematics teachers including 38 schools from banke district in Nepal.There were two research questions to determine differences in perception of mathematics teachers about teaching career and individual beliefs in teaching profession viewed by others on the basis of their gender, area and stream of education.The researcher surveyed a questionnaire that contained 35 items which are related to teaching career and individual beliefs in teaching profession viewed by others. The researcher analyzed the questionnaire data using both descriptive and inferential statistical techniques by performing SPSS 22.0 setting 0.05 levels of significance.The results of this research showed that there is a positive perception on teaching profession of mathematics teachers. It also showed that there is significance difference between female and male mathematics teachers perception on teaching profession. And, there is significance difference between mathematics teachers from rural and urban on the perception on teaching profession. But, there is no significance difference between teachers from education background and non education background on the perception on teaching profession.