GRADUATE TEACHER’S COGNITIVE AND AFFECTIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS RESEARCH AND THEIR BEHAVIOURAL INTENTION TO CONDUCT RESEARCH

Commerce and Management

This study examined the research problem of whether the graduate teacher’s cognitive and affective attitude towards research influences their behavioural intention to conduct research. This research was carried out with the main objective of investigating graduate teacher’s attitude towards research and their behavioural intention to conduct research in future. Furthermore, conceptual model has been developed to link between study variables and two hypotheses were formed to test the impact of graduate teacher’s attitude towards research on their behavioural intention to conduct research. Thus, cognitive attitude, affective attitude and behavioural intension were considered as the measurement variables of the study. Quantitative methodology has been applied for this research and questionnaires were used to collect data. 118 responses were received from graduate teachers in the study area. Descriptive, correlation and multiple regressions have been used for the analysis. Findings shows that graduate teachers have favourable cognitive and affective attitude towards research. Furthermore, it was also found that graduate teacher’s attitude towards research significantly influences their behavioural intention to conduct research. These findings would be useful for the policy makers to create the research culture among the graduate teachers towards the enhancement of educational sector of the country.

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