Anselm Komla Abotsi

Factors influencing the choice of teaching as a career: an empirical study of students in colleges of education in Ghana

By Anselm Komla Abotsi

Teachers play an important role in the development of human capital yet the rate of teacher attrition continues to be a problem in Ghana. The research seeks to explore the extent to which ease of attrition from the teaching profession influences the choice of the teaching profession as a career by student teachers. This study adopted a quantitative research design and deployed a multi-stage sampling strategy. The sample size was 864. Deploying the ordered-logistic regression model, the study finds that the ease of attrition from the teaching profession does not influence the choice of the teaching profession as a career. © 2019, © 2019 Academy of Social Sciences.