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Professional Development Engagement and Career Satisfaction of Agriscience Teachers
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Easterly, R. G., III; Myers, Brian E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2019
Teachers should possess a set of professional commitments, which includes active participation in professional development that leads to student learning. The purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between professional development engagement and career satisfaction. This study used a quantitative descriptive correlational research…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Agricultural Education, Job Satisfaction, Active Learning
Personal Resilience as a Predictor of Professional Development Engagement and Career Satisfaction of Agriscience Teachers
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Easterly, R. G., III; Myers, Brian E. – Journal of Agricultural Education, 2018
The profession of teaching is inherently stressful. Resilience, or the ability to adapt and develop competence despite exposure to disruptive change, has been shown to be beneficial for teachers. The purpose of this study was to determine if personal resilience is a predictor of professional development engagement and career satisfaction of…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Job Satisfaction, Regression (Statistics), Teacher Attitudes
Roads Scholars: Part-Time Faculty Job Satisfaction in Community Colleges
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Kramer, Allison L.; Gloeckner, Gene W.; Jacoby, Daniel – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2014
Are part-time faculty members satisfied with their roles in higher education? Data from part-time faculty responses regarding their experiences in higher education vary. Valadez and Antony (2001) analyzed data from 6,811 part-time faculty collected from the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) 1992-1993 National Survey of Postsecondary…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, College Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Job Satisfaction
The Physical and the Virtual: The Relationship between Library as Place and Electronic Collections
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Gerke, Jennifer; Maness, Jack M. – College & Research Libraries, 2010
A statistical analysis of responses to a LibQUAL+™ survey at the University of Colorado at Boulder (UCB) was conducted to investigate factors related to patrons' satisfaction with electronic collections. It was found that a respondent's discipline was not related to his or her satisfaction with the Libraries' electronic collection, nor was the…
Descriptors: Electronic Libraries, Statistical Analysis, Library Research, User Satisfaction (Information)
Factors Affecting Part-Time Faculty Job Satisfaction in the Colorado Community College System
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Cashwell, Allison L. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
How do part-time faculty members in community colleges view their roles? Data from part-time faculty responses regarding their experiences in higher education vary. Valadez and Antony (2001) analyzed data from 6,811 part-time faculty collected from the National Center for Education Statistics' (NCES) 1992-1993 National Survey of Postsecondary…
Descriptors: Community Colleges, Job Satisfaction, Health Insurance, Effect Size
Opening Doors: How Low-Income Parents Search for the Right School
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Teske, Paul; Fitzpatrick, Jody; Kaplan, Gabriel – Online Submission, 2007
A critical question in school choice programs is whether relatively low-income urban parents have the ability to gather the information they need to make good choices for their children. Choice is expanding, particularly in American cities. Without good information, the benefits generated from expanding public school choice (via No Child Left…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Information Sources, Social Networks, School Counselors