Achievement Motivation And Professional Integrity Of Teacher Educators

Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to find out the relationship between Achievement Motivation and Professional Integrity of teacher educators working in Colleges of Education in Vellore District. Sample of the study comprised of 225 teacher educators working in various colleges of Education.  Normative survey method is adopted for data collection. Stratified Random sampling method is used to select the sample of the study. Achievement Motivation Scale and Professional Integrity Questionnaire were developed and standardized by the investigator. Pearson Product Moment correlation and ‘t’ test was used to analyze the data. Results revealed that there is significant relationship exists between Achievement Motivation and Professional Integrity among teacher educators.

Also, it is found that there is no significant difference in Professional Integrity and Achievement Motivation based on gender.  With respect to annual income, there is significant difference found in Professional Integrity of teacher educators, whereas there is no significant difference found in Achievement Motivation.