ERIC Number: EJ1046269
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Dec
Pages: 20
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ISSN: ISSN-0162-3737
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Estimating the Effects of No Child Left Behind on Teachers' Work Environments and Job Attitudes
Grissom, Jason A.; Nicholson-Crotty, Sean; Harrington, James R.
Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, v36 n4 p417-436 Dec 2014
Several recent studies have examined the impacts of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) on school operations and student achievement. We complement that work by investigating the law's impacts on teachers' perceptions of their work environments and related job attitudes, including satisfaction and commitment to remain in teaching. Using four waves of the nationally representative Schools and Staffing Survey, which cover the period from 1994 to 2008, we document overall trends in teacher attitudes across this time period and take advantage of differences in the presence and strength of prior state accountability systems and differences in likely impacts on high- and low-poverty schools to isolate NCLB effects. Perhaps surprisingly, we show positive trends in many work environment measures, job satisfaction, and commitment across the time period coinciding with the implementation of NCLB. We find, however, relatively modest evidence of an impact of NCLB accountability itself. There is some evidence that the law has negatively affected perceptions of teacher cooperation but positively affected feelings of classroom control and administrator support. We find little evidence that teacher job satisfaction or commitment has changed in response to NCLB.
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Work Attitudes, Federal Legislation, Academic Achievement, Work Environment, Job Satisfaction, Trend Analysis, Accountability, Poverty, Teacher Collaboration, Classroom Techniques, Teacher Administrator Relationship, Policy Analysis, Educational Change, National Surveys
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - General
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: No Child Left Behind Act 2001
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Schools and Staffing Survey (NCES)
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