Perceptions of public junior high school teachers in Berekum municipality on the performance appraisal system in Ghana education service

Abstract

The study was to find out the perception of public junior high school teachers in Berekum Municipality on the performance appraisal system in Ghana Education Service (GES).The evaluative research design was used in the study. The cluster and simple random sampling techniques were used to select 142 respondents for the study. The questionnaire was the main instrument used in the collection of the field data. The data were analysed with the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) (Version 10) software. The results were presented in frequency tables, percentages and barcharts. The main findings of the study were that most of the respondents were of the view that their headteachers involved them in the practice of performance appraisal. The majority of the respondents indicated that the implementation of the performance appraisal was in line with the GES system; the majority of the respondents stated that performance appraisal was not regularly conducted in the schools. The main recommendations of the study were that the GES must organize workshops on the performance appraisal system on a regular basis for the teachers, and feedback from the performance appraisal must be given to the teachers.