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Ndoye, Abdou; Imig, Scott R.; Parker, Michele A. – Journal of School Choice, 2010
Teacher attrition and migration plague many American schools. The situation is even more dire in charter schools across the country. On average, teacher attrition is 15 to 40% higher in charter schools than in traditional schools. This study examined the relationships among teacher empowerment, school leadership, and intentions to stay in or leave…
Descriptors: Teacher Empowerment, Traditional Schools, Charter Schools, Teacher Persistence
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Corbell, Kristen A.; Osborne, Jason; Reiman, Alan J. – Educational Research and Evaluation, 2010
In the United States, 50% of beginning teachers leave the classroom in their first 5 years of teaching (Ingersoll & Smith, 2004). This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the Perceptions of Success Inventory for Beginning Teachers (PSI-BT), an instrument that can be used to make informed decisions for improving induction programs…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Construct Validity, Test Validity, Factor Analysis
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Parker, Michele A.; Ndoye, Abdou; Imig, Scott R. – Mentoring & Tutoring: Partnership in Learning, 2009
For this study the researchers used data from the 2006 North Carolina Teacher Working Conditions survey to investigate the possible relationship between mentoring and intentionality with respect to beginning teachers' intentions to remain in the profession. The sample consists of 8838 teachers who were mentored during their first two years of…
Descriptors: Mentors, Teacher Attitudes, Predictor Variables, Attribution Theory