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Download full textAras, Ayda – Eurasian Journal of Educational Research, 2019
Purpose: Music education is a learning and teaching process that creates cognitive, affective and psychomotor changes in the behaviors of an individual. One of the most important elements of this process is the music teacher. The experiences of music teachers in the work environment also affect the quality of education they provide. Therefore,…
Descriptors: Music Teachers, Job Satisfaction, Elementary Schools, Foreign Countries
Direct linkMäkelä, Kasper; Hirvensalo, Mirja; Whipp, Peter R. – Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport, 2014
Purpose: This study investigated Finnish physical education (PE) teachers' intentions to leave the profession and the reasons behind them. Method: A large sample (N = 808) of PE teachers who graduated between 1980 and 2008 (432 women, 376 men) answered a modified job satisfaction and teacher follow-up questionnaire that elicited career…
Descriptors: Physical Education Teachers, Career Development, Teacher Persistence, Job Satisfaction
Clark, Mindi S.; Kelsey, Kathleen D.; Brown, Nicholas R. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2014
Attrition among the agricultural education profession is concerning as approximately 50% of agriculture teachers leave within the first six years of teaching. Therefore, the purpose of the phenomenological study, conducted from an emic perspective, was to explore and describe secondary agriculture teachers' experiences related to remaining in the…
Descriptors: Phenomenology, Decision Making, Teacher Persistence, Agricultural Education
Cha, Sung-Hyun; Cohen-Vogel, Lora – School Effectiveness and School Improvement, 2011
To better understand the factors related to teachers' decisions to leave for jobs outside of education, the study employs a structural equation modeling approach to analyze data from two large national datasets from the National Center for Education Statistics. The focus on occupation switchers is unique, with most studies of teacher attrition…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Structural Equation Models, Teacher Persistence, Faculty Mobility
Pascale, Amanda Blakewood – NASPA Journal About Women in Higher Education, 2018
Much warranted attention over the past few decades has been devoted to the problem of retaining women faculty in academe, particularly in areas where they are poorly represented such as in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. This study uses descriptive statistics and structural equation modeling techniques to identify…
Descriptors: Women Faculty, STEM Education, College Faculty, Teacher Persistence
Stuit, David; Smith, Thomas M. – National Center on School Choice, Vanderbilt University (NJ1), 2010
The current study aimed to contribute to a deeper understanding of the organizational conditions of charter schools by examining teacher turnover. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) 2003-04 Schools and Staffing Survey (SASS) and the Teacher Follow-Up Survey (TFS), researchers from the National Center on School…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Teacher Characteristics, Public School Teachers
Coggshall, Jane G. – National Comprehensive Center for Teacher Quality, 2006
This comprehensive review of 16 nationally representative public opinion polls conducted between 2000 and 2006 provides insight into how teachers, school administrators, parents, and the general public view the teaching profession. It looks specifically at issues of teacher availability, recruitment, and retention for at-risk and hard-to-staff…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Teacher Effectiveness, Job Satisfaction, Public Opinion
Gonzalez, Patricia – NSTEP Information Brief, 1995
External, employment, and personal factors which influence teacher decisions to stay, leave, or transfer from teaching assignments are discussed, with emphasis on special education teachers. Factors attributed to teacher attrition in urban and rural environments also are briefly reviewed, along with attrition of related services professionals.…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Elementary Secondary Education, Influences, Job Satisfaction
Harris (Louis) and Associates, Inc., New York, NY. – 1985
A national survey of teacher attrition was conducted by means of interviews with a sample of former teachers who left public schools within the last five years to work in other occupations. Graphs and charts accompanied by narrative discussion are presented, covering the following topics: (1) profile of former teachers compared to current…
Descriptors: Career Change, Faculty Mobility, Job Satisfaction, Labor Turnover
Smith, Frederick D. – BIA Education Research Bulletin, 1977
One of the principal problems the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) has in carrying out its responsibility to educate Indian children is the high turnover rate among its teachers; a large proportion of teachers in the BIA school system leave after their first year or second year of work. Teachers at six elementary schools on the Navajo Reservation…
Descriptors: American Indian Education, American Indian Reservations, Elementary School Teachers, Faculty Mobility
Armour, Robert; And Others – 1990
A total of 1,135 senior faculty from 6 institutions of higher education responded to a questionnaire designed to determine the relationships between personal and career development for senior college faculty and the similarities and differences in satisfaction among faculty from various disciplines. Responses from the questionnaire showed that…
Descriptors: Career Development, College Faculty, Comparative Analysis, Cooperation
Peer reviewedBeaudin, Barbara Q. – Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, 1993
Through maximum likelihood logistic regression analysis, assesses characteristics distinguishing teachers who return to the classroom after career interruptions from those who do not. Among 3,060 teachers, those most likely to return have fewer opportunities for better-paying employment, with more experience and master's degrees, and interrupted…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Career Change, Education Work Relationship, Elementary Secondary Education
