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Timothy M. Smith – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many teachers have become dissatisfied with their jobs, leaving their school district or the field of education to purse other careers outside of education. Recently, teacher attrition has been a problem for schools in Tennessee. The shortage of teachers in Tennessee led to the elimination of the Teacher Performance Assessment by the Tennessee…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Teacher Attitudes, Principals, Teaching Experience
Mitchell, Joi A. – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of leadership styles on teacher retention, specifically in priority schools. The literature review revealed some existing research on the correlation of principal styles and teacher job satisfaction, student achievement, and teacher burnout, however; minimal research was found to support the…
Descriptors: Leadership Styles, Questionnaires, Transformational Leadership, Correlation
Jones, Eric Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2016
Of the six PLC dimensions theorized by Hord, the 307 respondents in this study suggested that two such dimension--namely, "Shared Personal Practice" and "Supportive Conditions: Structures"--tended systematically to be underrepresented at their schools: irrespective of their schools' categorization as either high- or…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Disproportionate Representation, Hierarchical Linear Modeling, Communities of Practice
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Gulosino, Charisse A.; Jones, Laquetta; Franceschini, Louis – Planning and Changing, 2016
The primary aim of this study is to use the survey items from the TELL Tennessee Survey (2013) using the Competing Values Framework (CVF) to determine whether teachers' observations about a set of topically organized school climate dimensions and performance levels are associated with teacher satisfaction. Specifically, the study sets out to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Job Satisfaction, Institutional Characteristics
Potter, Stephanie Litton – ProQuest LLC, 2012
The purpose of this quantitative, causal-comparative study was to examine the differences between teachers' mean job satisfaction scores based on the administrators' gender and examine the relationship between the administrators' gender and teachers' organizational commitment plans in Tennessee middle schools. Job satisfaction and organizational…
Descriptors: Principals, Middle School Teachers, Middle Schools, Teacher Surveys
Hearn, Sidney Thomas – ProQuest LLC, 2009
The purposes of this study were to determine whether variables reported in previous research on teacher turnover could be reduced to a number of factors, and to determine how those resulting factors affected career longevity in band directors. Career longevity was defined as the total number of years teaching. Literature on teacher turnover was…
Descriptors: Job Satisfaction, Teacher Persistence, Multiple Regression Analysis, Factor Analysis